Given over to the Word, mind and body turn lush green; the One that greens the world fills the heart with peace.
The Arc
Give your whole heart to the Guru's Word, and keep your mind close at the Guru's feet. Rest your attention on the Naam. Your mind and body turn lush and green, and you gather its fruit. The Guru keeps you safe. You taste the sweet nectar of the One. The ache of ego leaves, and peace moves in to stay. Be humble as the dust at the feet of good people. In the Sangat, people gathered to remember the One, you are joined to the One together. The One does everything and turns every living thing green. Joined with the Word, you carry that peace in body and mind for good. At the centre, the Rahao: rest your mind on the Naam, and your whole self grows green.
Key Vocabulary
Basant Hindol — the blended spring raag of this shabad.
bhaai — O Siblings of Destiny; the family address to all.
man tan hariaa — mind and body turning green.
jin hari-aa kee-aa sabh ko-ay — the One makes everything green.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The everyone-as-family address (bhaai) foregrounds equality, a caste-leveling note shared with the servant-of-servants ideal (Shabad 20). The greening-of-the-world image joins Shabad 29's world-as-garden.
For Raag Basant
The Hindol blend brings a swinging, festive lift to Basant; the bhaai refrain makes the whole shabad feel like an invitation called out to a crowd.
Hukumnama
Subject: Rest your mind on the Naam and grow green Preview: a heart given to the Word, a mind turning green, sweet nectar, dust of humble feet, peace that stays
Today: Give your whole heart to the Guru's Word, and keep your mind close at the Guru's feet. Rest your attention on the Naam. Your mind and body turn lush and green, and you gather its fruit. The Guru keeps you safe. You taste the sweet nectar of the One. The ache of ego leaves, and peace moves in to stay. Be humble as the dust at the feet of good people. In the Sangat, people gathered to remember the One, you are joined to the One together. The One does everything and turns every living thing green. Joined with the Word, you carry that peace in body and mind for good.
Rest your mind on the Naam, and your whole self grows green.
For today: Before you start something hard today, take three slow breaths and rest your mind on the Naam.
Given over to the Word, mind and body turn lush green; the One that greens the world fills the heart with peace.
The Arc
Give your whole heart to the Guru's Word, and keep your mind close at the Guru's feet. Rest your attention on the Naam. Your mind and body turn lush and green, and you gather its fruit. The Guru keeps you safe. You taste the sweet nectar of the One. The ache of ego leaves, and peace moves in to stay. Be humble as the dust at the feet of good people. In the Sangat, people gathered to remember the One, you are joined to the One together. The One does everything and turns every living thing green. Joined with the Word, you carry that peace in body and mind for good. At the centre, the Rahao: rest your mind on the Naam, and your whole self grows green.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The everyone-as-family address (bhaai) foregrounds equality, a caste-leveling note shared with the servant-of-servants ideal (Shabad 20). The greening-of-the-world image joins Shabad 29's world-as-garden.
For Raag Basant
The Hindol blend brings a swinging, festive lift to Basant; the bhaai refrain makes the whole shabad feel like an invitation called out to a crowd.
Hukumnama
Subject: Rest your mind on the Naam and grow green Preview: a heart given to the Word, a mind turning green, sweet nectar, dust of humble feet, peace that stays
Today: Give your whole heart to the Guru's Word, and keep your mind close at the Guru's feet. Rest your attention on the Naam. Your mind and body turn lush and green, and you gather its fruit. The Guru keeps you safe. You taste the sweet nectar of the One. The ache of ego leaves, and peace moves in to stay. Be humble as the dust at the feet of good people. In the Sangat, people gathered to remember the One, you are joined to the One together. The One does everything and turns every living thing green. Joined with the Word, you carry that peace in body and mind for good.
Rest your mind on the Naam, and your whole self grows green.
For today: Before you start something hard today, take three slow breaths and rest your mind on the Naam.