Sing the good of the One and the mind bursts into bloom — dyed through with spring's own color.
The Arc
The blossoming shabad. Singing the One's praises clears away old heavy things, and a quiet music of ease rises day and night. The mind itself buds and turns green near the One (man maulio), colored through with love for the Name. The Sustainer becomes visible and lifts the humble like a child holding a parent's sleeve. A proud mind grows soft and low, and from that humility it sees the One ever-present. At last the inner fires — craving, anger, thirst — cool and go quiet, and the One simply turns kind.
Key Vocabulary
kilbikh binse — old wrongs dissolving in song.
man maulio — the mind blossoming, budding green: Basant's keynote.
raatou har naam rang — dyed in the color of the Name.
deen daiaal — kind to the humble and the lowly.
kaam krodh trisnaa gaee — the burning cravings cooling and going quiet.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The mind as a plant that blooms near what it loves; humility as the ground of seeing.
For Raag Basant
man maulio — 'the mind blossoms' — is Basant's spring image turned inward.
Translation Notes
'Sexual desire, anger and desire' rendered for children as grabbing, anger, and never-enough thirst — inner fires that cool, not sins to be punished. 'Dust of the holy' rendered as a proud mind grown soft and humble, foregrounding humility's leveling.
Sing the good of the One and the mind bursts into bloom — dyed through with spring's own color.
The Arc
The blossoming shabad. Singing the One's praises clears away old heavy things, and a quiet music of ease rises day and night. The mind itself buds and turns green near the One (man maulio), colored through with love for the Name. The Sustainer becomes visible and lifts the humble like a child holding a parent's sleeve. A proud mind grows soft and low, and from that humility it sees the One ever-present. At last the inner fires — craving, anger, thirst — cool and go quiet, and the One simply turns kind.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The mind as a plant that blooms near what it loves; humility as the ground of seeing.
For Raag Basant
man maulio — 'the mind blossoms' — is Basant's spring image turned inward.
Translation Notes
'Sexual desire, anger and desire' rendered for children as grabbing, anger, and never-enough thirst — inner fires that cool, not sins to be punished. 'Dust of the holy' rendered as a proud mind grown soft and humble, foregrounding humility's leveling.