Rooted like a tree by the One's door, the mind turns green and bears fruit.
The Arc
The Word burns off your clinging, and your mind turns green. You become a tree at the One's door, heavy with fruit. Your mind can grow green with ease. Love the Guru, and the fruit is truth. The One feels far, and the One feels near. Through the Word, you see the One right beside you. Plants open into thick, cool shade, and you open too. Sing the One's praises day and night, and doubt clears. Look at the world around you, and wonder fills you. The Creator enjoys it all. The Great Giver gives with no greed. Live the Word, and you meet the One. At the centre, the Rahao: loving the Guru, your mind turns green and bears the fruit of truth.
Key Vocabulary
safli-o birakh — the fruitful tree; the body and mind as a tree bearing the Name.
vismaad — wonder, awe that silences the mind.
joothh bharaant — wrongdoing and doubt, cleared out by the Guru.
chhaav ghanee — dense, cool shade; the blossoming woodland.
til na tamaa-ay — not a sesame-seed of greed; the selfless Giver.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The tree image links back to the opening shabad and forward to Shabad 27 (this body is the tree). Wonder-that-silences connects to Japji's vismaad and to Raag Bhairao's awe before the all-holding One.
For Raag Basant
The dense-shade, blossoming-woodland imagery here is some of the most vividly seasonal in the raag — spring as a canopy opening overhead.
Hukumnama
Subject: Your mind can turn green and bear fruit Preview: a tree by the One's door, near and far at once, thick spring shade, a Giver who wants nothing back
Today: The Word burns off your clinging, and your mind turns green. You become a tree at the One's door, heavy with fruit. Your mind can grow green with ease. Love the Guru, and the fruit is truth. The One feels far, and the One feels near. Through the Word, you see the One right beside you. Plants open into thick, cool shade, and you open too. Sing the One's praises day and night, and doubt clears. Look at the world around you, and wonder fills you. The Creator enjoys it all. The Great Giver gives with no greed. Live the Word, and you meet the One.
Loving the Guru, your mind turns green and bears the fruit of truth.
For today: Stand under a tree for one minute today and take in the green and the shade.
Rooted like a tree by the One's door, the mind turns green and bears fruit.
The Arc
The Word burns off your clinging, and your mind turns green. You become a tree at the One's door, heavy with fruit. Your mind can grow green with ease. Love the Guru, and the fruit is truth. The One feels far, and the One feels near. Through the Word, you see the One right beside you. Plants open into thick, cool shade, and you open too. Sing the One's praises day and night, and doubt clears. Look at the world around you, and wonder fills you. The Creator enjoys it all. The Great Giver gives with no greed. Live the Word, and you meet the One. At the centre, the Rahao: loving the Guru, your mind turns green and bears the fruit of truth.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The tree image links back to the opening shabad and forward to Shabad 27 (this body is the tree). Wonder-that-silences connects to Japji's vismaad and to Raag Bhairao's awe before the all-holding One.
For Raag Basant
The dense-shade, blossoming-woodland imagery here is some of the most vividly seasonal in the raag — spring as a canopy opening overhead.
Hukumnama
Subject: Your mind can turn green and bear fruit Preview: a tree by the One's door, near and far at once, thick spring shade, a Giver who wants nothing back
Today: The Word burns off your clinging, and your mind turns green. You become a tree at the One's door, heavy with fruit. Your mind can grow green with ease. Love the Guru, and the fruit is truth. The One feels far, and the One feels near. Through the Word, you see the One right beside you. Plants open into thick, cool shade, and you open too. Sing the One's praises day and night, and doubt clears. Look at the world around you, and wonder fills you. The Creator enjoys it all. The Great Giver gives with no greed. Live the Word, and you meet the One.
Loving the Guru, your mind turns green and bears the fruit of truth.
For today: Stand under a tree for one minute today and take in the green and the shade.