Like a baby who needs its mother, my heart cannot go a moment without the One.
The Arc
Your mind can feel like a baby with its mother. Without the One, even a moment feels empty. Keep drinking in the sweetness of the Naam. Let it run right through you, mind and body. By great good fortune you find the Guru, and the One shows up inside your own body. Let every breath carry love. Be like the lotus that loves its water. Repeat the spotless Naam. The dirt of ego from many lives washes off in a sweet ocean. You can ask the One to look past your deeds and protect you. Come into the One's shelter. At the centre, the Rahao: the Naam runs right through you, mind and body, and the One is found inside.
Key Vocabulary
naam ras geedhay — drinking in the sweet essence of the Naam, over and over.
jal kamal preet — the lotus in love with its water; wither without it.
haumai mal — the crust of ego, the stuck feeling of a separate self, washed away.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Longing-as-love: thirst that is itself a form of nearness, a recurring Basant note.
For Raag Basant
Spring's water imagery: the lotus that cannot bloom without its pond, the ego washed in the sweet ocean.
Hukumnama
Subject: The Naam runs through your whole self Preview: a baby crying for its mother, mind and body pierced through, a lotus in its pond, a sweet ocean
Today: Your mind can feel like a baby with its mother. Without the One, even a moment feels empty. Keep drinking in the sweetness of the Naam. Let it run right through you, mind and body. By great good fortune you find the Guru, and the One shows up inside your own body. Let every breath carry love. Be like the lotus that loves its water. Repeat the spotless Naam. The dirt of ego from many lives washes off in a sweet ocean. You can ask the One to look past your deeds and protect you. Come into the One's shelter.
The Naam runs right through you, mind and body, and the One is found inside.
For today: On a short walk today, quietly repeat the Naam with each breath.
Like a baby who needs its mother, my heart cannot go a moment without the One.
The Arc
Your mind can feel like a baby with its mother. Without the One, even a moment feels empty. Keep drinking in the sweetness of the Naam. Let it run right through you, mind and body. By great good fortune you find the Guru, and the One shows up inside your own body. Let every breath carry love. Be like the lotus that loves its water. Repeat the spotless Naam. The dirt of ego from many lives washes off in a sweet ocean. You can ask the One to look past your deeds and protect you. Come into the One's shelter. At the centre, the Rahao: the Naam runs right through you, mind and body, and the One is found inside.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Longing-as-love: thirst that is itself a form of nearness, a recurring Basant note.
For Raag Basant
Spring's water imagery: the lotus that cannot bloom without its pond, the ego washed in the sweet ocean.
Hukumnama
Subject: The Naam runs through your whole self Preview: a baby crying for its mother, mind and body pierced through, a lotus in its pond, a sweet ocean
Today: Your mind can feel like a baby with its mother. Without the One, even a moment feels empty. Keep drinking in the sweetness of the Naam. Let it run right through you, mind and body. By great good fortune you find the Guru, and the One shows up inside your own body. Let every breath carry love. Be like the lotus that loves its water. Repeat the spotless Naam. The dirt of ego from many lives washes off in a sweet ocean. You can ask the One to look past your deeds and protect you. Come into the One's shelter.
The Naam runs right through you, mind and body, and the One is found inside.
For today: On a short walk today, quietly repeat the Naam with each breath.