Look — everything is blooming. This is the season to plant one seed: the Name.
The Arc
The great spring song. Behold the flowers opening, blossom after blossom — so set down the heavy sense of being separate and all-important, take hold of what is good, and meet the One; keep it close in mind. The tender young plants are soft and sweet, while those that pulled away stayed dry as old wood. Spring has come — so bloom, fully and freely. And now is the time: plant the one seed, the Name, and plant it well, for this is the mind's true planting-season.
Key Vocabulary
dekh fool fool foole — behold the flowers flowering: the raag's pure spring image.
ahan tiaag — setting down ego (haumai), which leaves a heart dry as old wood.
basant rutt aaee parfooltaa rahe — spring has come, so flourish.
ik naam bovhu — plant the one seed, the Name: the farmer in spring.
man rutt naam re — the mind's true season is the Name.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The soft and open bloom while the stiff stay dry; the right season for planting what matters.
For Raag Basant
This is Basant's clearest spring anthem — blossoms, tender shoots, and the planting season named outright.
Translation Notes
The 'dark age of Kali Yuga' rendered simply as 'right now is the time,' keeping the urgency to plant the Name while dropping any dread. Ego (ahan) imaged as what leaves a heart dry, not as a sin. The rahau line ('remain conscious of the One') is carried in the opening pauri, where it sits in the source, since this short two-part shabad merges the pause into Pauri 0.
Look — everything is blooming. This is the season to plant one seed: the Name.
The Arc
The great spring song. Behold the flowers opening, blossom after blossom — so set down the heavy sense of being separate and all-important, take hold of what is good, and meet the One; keep it close in mind. The tender young plants are soft and sweet, while those that pulled away stayed dry as old wood. Spring has come — so bloom, fully and freely. And now is the time: plant the one seed, the Name, and plant it well, for this is the mind's true planting-season.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The soft and open bloom while the stiff stay dry; the right season for planting what matters.
For Raag Basant
This is Basant's clearest spring anthem — blossoms, tender shoots, and the planting season named outright.
Translation Notes
The 'dark age of Kali Yuga' rendered simply as 'right now is the time,' keeping the urgency to plant the Name while dropping any dread. Ego (ahan) imaged as what leaves a heart dry, not as a sin. The rahau line ('remain conscious of the One') is carried in the opening pauri, where it sits in the source, since this short two-part shabad merges the pause into Pauri 0.