The One loves to come close; a heart soaked in truth stays green all year.
The Arc
Lean toward the One with love, and the One comes close. It happens by grace, gently, with ease. As you love, the proud just-me feeling melts, and you meet the True One. Love makes you beautiful at the One's door. Love the Guru, and love for the True One fills you. Your heart grows clean and clear. Peace moves in and stays. Live dyed in Truth, and you stay green, like spring all year. Forget the Naam, and life turns dry and thirsty, always wanting more. Do what pleases the One. Your body rests easy, and the Naam settles in your heart. At the centre, the Rahao: those who love the One are always beautiful at the One's door.
Key Vocabulary
sad basant — forever spring; the standing metaphor of the raag.
hariaa — turning green, coming alive.
bhagat vachhal — lover of devotees.
aap khoi — the separate-self feeling dissolving (haumai).
Themes and Cross-Connections
The green-versus-dry contrast recurs through the whole raag. The Name comes to dwell in the mind refrain closes several of these shabads. Wonder and union themes connect forward to the shabads that follow.
For Raag Basant
Basant is the spring raag; this shabad re-plants the raag's master-image — the heart as ground that turns green when watered by the Name.
Hukumnama
Subject: Love makes you beautiful at the One's door Preview: a One who loves to come close, faces glowing at a door, a spring that never ends, a world dry with wanting
Today: Lean toward the One with love, and the One comes close. It happens by grace, gently, with ease. As you love, the proud just-me feeling melts, and you meet the True One. Love makes you beautiful at the One's door. Love the Guru, and love for the True One fills you. Your heart grows clean and clear. Peace moves in and stays. Live dyed in Truth, and you stay green, like spring all year. Forget the Naam, and life turns dry and thirsty, always wanting more. Do what pleases the One. Your body rests easy, and the Naam settles in your heart.
Those who love the One are always beautiful at the One's door.
For today: Do one kind thing today simply out of love, and notice how light it feels.
The One loves to come close; a heart soaked in truth stays green all year.
The Arc
Lean toward the One with love, and the One comes close. It happens by grace, gently, with ease. As you love, the proud just-me feeling melts, and you meet the True One. Love makes you beautiful at the One's door. Love the Guru, and love for the True One fills you. Your heart grows clean and clear. Peace moves in and stays. Live dyed in Truth, and you stay green, like spring all year. Forget the Naam, and life turns dry and thirsty, always wanting more. Do what pleases the One. Your body rests easy, and the Naam settles in your heart. At the centre, the Rahao: those who love the One are always beautiful at the One's door.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The green-versus-dry contrast recurs through the whole raag. The Name comes to dwell in the mind refrain closes several of these shabads. Wonder and union themes connect forward to the shabads that follow.
For Raag Basant
Basant is the spring raag; this shabad re-plants the raag's master-image — the heart as ground that turns green when watered by the Name.
Hukumnama
Subject: Love makes you beautiful at the One's door Preview: a One who loves to come close, faces glowing at a door, a spring that never ends, a world dry with wanting
Today: Lean toward the One with love, and the One comes close. It happens by grace, gently, with ease. As you love, the proud just-me feeling melts, and you meet the True One. Love makes you beautiful at the One's door. Love the Guru, and love for the True One fills you. Your heart grows clean and clear. Peace moves in and stays. Live dyed in Truth, and you stay green, like spring all year. Forget the Naam, and life turns dry and thirsty, always wanting more. Do what pleases the One. Your body rests easy, and the Naam settles in your heart.
Those who love the One are always beautiful at the One's door.
For today: Do one kind thing today simply out of love, and notice how light it feels.