The greatest treasure is waiting in a small room inside you.
The Arc
A jewel is hidden in a small room inside you: the Naam. Meet the Guru, and you search and find it. Your small light joins the great Light. Ask to be near holy people. Just seeing them, the weight of your wrongs falls away. Five thieves try to raid you: craving, anger, greed, clinging and pride. They steal your treasure. Follow the Guru's teaching, track them down, and get it all back. Pretending and showing off wear you out. Meeting the One switches the lights on. Then peace moves into your mind, and your heart keeps singing all day. At the centre, the Rahao: seeing holy people lifts your wrongs away and raises you up.
Key Vocabulary
raam naam ratan — the Naam as a jewel hidden in the body-fortress.
panch chor — the five thieves (craving, anger, greed, attachment, pride).
saantt — the deep peace that comes to dwell within.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The hidden-treasure-within motif runs through Basant M4 and echoes the body-village imagery of the following shabads.
For Raag Basant
Basant is the spring raag of renewal; here the renewal is the inner jewel found and the heart turning green with song.
Hukumnama
Subject: Seeing holy people lifts your wrongs away Preview: a jewel hidden in the body's fortress, five thieves caught, a dark room lit, a heart that keeps singing
Today: A jewel is hidden in a small room inside you: the Naam. Meet the Guru, and you search and find it. Your small light joins the great Light. Ask to be near holy people. Just seeing them, the weight of your wrongs falls away. Five thieves try to raid you: craving, anger, greed, clinging and pride. They steal your treasure. Follow the Guru's teaching, track them down, and get it all back. Pretending and showing off wear you out. Meeting the One switches the lights on. Then peace moves into your mind, and your heart keeps singing all day.
Seeing holy people lifts your wrongs away and raises you up.
For today: Spend a few minutes today near someone calm and kind, and notice how light you feel.
The greatest treasure is waiting in a small room inside you.
The Arc
A jewel is hidden in a small room inside you: the Naam. Meet the Guru, and you search and find it. Your small light joins the great Light. Ask to be near holy people. Just seeing them, the weight of your wrongs falls away. Five thieves try to raid you: craving, anger, greed, clinging and pride. They steal your treasure. Follow the Guru's teaching, track them down, and get it all back. Pretending and showing off wear you out. Meeting the One switches the lights on. Then peace moves into your mind, and your heart keeps singing all day. At the centre, the Rahao: seeing holy people lifts your wrongs away and raises you up.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The hidden-treasure-within motif runs through Basant M4 and echoes the body-village imagery of the following shabads.
For Raag Basant
Basant is the spring raag of renewal; here the renewal is the inner jewel found and the heart turning green with song.
Hukumnama
Subject: Seeing holy people lifts your wrongs away Preview: a jewel hidden in the body's fortress, five thieves caught, a dark room lit, a heart that keeps singing
Today: A jewel is hidden in a small room inside you: the Naam. Meet the Guru, and you search and find it. Your small light joins the great Light. Ask to be near holy people. Just seeing them, the weight of your wrongs falls away. Five thieves try to raid you: craving, anger, greed, clinging and pride. They steal your treasure. Follow the Guru's teaching, track them down, and get it all back. Pretending and showing off wear you out. Meeting the One switches the lights on. Then peace moves into your mind, and your heart keeps singing all day.
Seeing holy people lifts your wrongs away and raises you up.
For today: Spend a few minutes today near someone calm and kind, and notice how light you feel.