A true life bears fruit; its words ring true and its heart stays low.
The Arc
With good fortune, you live and work in truth. Keep the One in mind, and you stop going round in circles. That is a life that bears fruit. Do your work with your heart tuned to the One. Serve the Naam, and let the all-about-me feeling go. Then your words ring true, and they travel far. People notice a life dyed in the Naam. Stay tuned to the true Word, and the One feels close. Stay humble, glad to sit at the feet of good people. There is one Maker, and no other. Serve what is true, and joy comes. At the centre, the Rahao: do your work with your heart tuned to the One, and let self-importance go.
Key Vocabulary
safal janam — a fruitful human birth.
liv laa-ay — loving absorption; the heart tuned in.
so-ay — renown, the natural light of a true life.
pag pankaj dhoor — dust of the lotus feet; deep humility.
ayko kartaa — one Creator, no second (Ik Onkar).
Themes and Cross-Connections
The dust-of-feet humility carries straight into Shabad 20. Oneness-with-no-second is the shared root of the whole raag and of Ik Onkar throughout Gurbani.
For Raag Basant
Even in a raag of blossoms, Guru Amar Das keeps the ground low: the fruitful life is also the humble one.
Hukumnama
Subject: Do your work with a heart tuned to the One Preview: a fruitful birth, work done with a tuned heart, true words spreading through the ages, dust at holy feet
Today: With good fortune, you live and work in truth. Keep the One in mind, and you stop going round in circles. That is a life that bears fruit. Do your work with your heart tuned to the One. Serve the Naam, and let the all-about-me feeling go. Then your words ring true, and they travel far. People notice a life dyed in the Naam. Stay tuned to the true Word, and the One feels close. Stay humble, glad to sit at the feet of good people. There is one Maker, and no other. Serve what is true, and joy comes.
Do your work with your heart tuned to the One, and let self-importance go.
For today: Pick one task today and do it slowly, with your whole heart tuned in.
A true life bears fruit; its words ring true and its heart stays low.
The Arc
With good fortune, you live and work in truth. Keep the One in mind, and you stop going round in circles. That is a life that bears fruit. Do your work with your heart tuned to the One. Serve the Naam, and let the all-about-me feeling go. Then your words ring true, and they travel far. People notice a life dyed in the Naam. Stay tuned to the true Word, and the One feels close. Stay humble, glad to sit at the feet of good people. There is one Maker, and no other. Serve what is true, and joy comes. At the centre, the Rahao: do your work with your heart tuned to the One, and let self-importance go.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The dust-of-feet humility carries straight into Shabad 20. Oneness-with-no-second is the shared root of the whole raag and of Ik Onkar throughout Gurbani.
For Raag Basant
Even in a raag of blossoms, Guru Amar Das keeps the ground low: the fruitful life is also the humble one.
Hukumnama
Subject: Do your work with a heart tuned to the One Preview: a fruitful birth, work done with a tuned heart, true words spreading through the ages, dust at holy feet
Today: With good fortune, you live and work in truth. Keep the One in mind, and you stop going round in circles. That is a life that bears fruit. Do your work with your heart tuned to the One. Serve the Naam, and let the all-about-me feeling go. Then your words ring true, and they travel far. People notice a life dyed in the Naam. Stay tuned to the true Word, and the One feels close. Stay humble, glad to sit at the feet of good people. There is one Maker, and no other. Serve what is true, and joy comes.
Do your work with your heart tuned to the One, and let self-importance go.
For today: Pick one task today and do it slowly, with your whole heart tuned in.