The restless mind, reined gently by the Word, trots back home and settles down.
The Arc
Your mind runs off a hundred times a minute. It won't stay home. The Guru's Word works like a gentle rein, and like medicine too, turning it back toward home. Sit with people who remember the One, and the sickness of ego starts to heal. A deep, easy calm settles in. Your house is packed with jewels. A running mind walks right past them. The Guru points to the treasure the way a water-finder points to a hidden spring. This life is rare, the fruit of a lot of good. Spend it on what lasts, the Naam. Ask for kindness, sing with holy people, and a peace comes that nothing can shake. At the centre, the Rahao: remembering the One with the Sangat heals ego and brings calm.
Key Vocabulary
ankas sabad — the bridle/goad of the Word that gently turns the runaway mind.
odaa koop — the water-diviner and the well; the Guru who finds the hidden treasure fast.
nirbaan pad — a peace so complete nothing can shake it.
dhrig dhrig — cursed, shameful; a cry over a precious gift going to waste.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The mind-that-will-not-stay-home, a recurring image linking these Hindol shabads.
For Raag Basant
Spring as the settled, watered ground: the well opened, the mind come home to bloom.
Hukumnama
Subject: Remembering the One together heals your ego Preview: a runaway mind, a rein that heals, a house full of jewels, a water-finder's well, a life traded for a shell
Today: Your mind runs off a hundred times a minute. It won't stay home. The Guru's Word works like a gentle rein, and like medicine too, turning it back toward home. Sit with people who remember the One, and the sickness of ego starts to heal. A deep, easy calm settles in. Your house is packed with jewels. A running mind walks right past them. The Guru points to the treasure the way a water-finder points to a hidden spring. This life is rare, the fruit of a lot of good. Spend it on what lasts, the Naam. Ask for kindness, sing with holy people, and a peace comes that nothing can shake.
Remembering the One with the Sangat heals ego and brings calm.
For today: When your mind races today, take three slow breaths and bring it home to the Naam.
The restless mind, reined gently by the Word, trots back home and settles down.
The Arc
Your mind runs off a hundred times a minute. It won't stay home. The Guru's Word works like a gentle rein, and like medicine too, turning it back toward home. Sit with people who remember the One, and the sickness of ego starts to heal. A deep, easy calm settles in. Your house is packed with jewels. A running mind walks right past them. The Guru points to the treasure the way a water-finder points to a hidden spring. This life is rare, the fruit of a lot of good. Spend it on what lasts, the Naam. Ask for kindness, sing with holy people, and a peace comes that nothing can shake. At the centre, the Rahao: remembering the One with the Sangat heals ego and brings calm.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The mind-that-will-not-stay-home, a recurring image linking these Hindol shabads.
For Raag Basant
Spring as the settled, watered ground: the well opened, the mind come home to bloom.
Hukumnama
Subject: Remembering the One together heals your ego Preview: a runaway mind, a rein that heals, a house full of jewels, a water-finder's well, a life traded for a shell
Today: Your mind runs off a hundred times a minute. It won't stay home. The Guru's Word works like a gentle rein, and like medicine too, turning it back toward home. Sit with people who remember the One, and the sickness of ego starts to heal. A deep, easy calm settles in. Your house is packed with jewels. A running mind walks right past them. The Guru points to the treasure the way a water-finder points to a hidden spring. This life is rare, the fruit of a lot of good. Spend it on what lasts, the Naam. Ask for kindness, sing with holy people, and a peace comes that nothing can shake.
Remembering the One with the Sangat heals ego and brings calm.
For today: When your mind races today, take three slow breaths and bring it home to the Naam.