Look — everything is blooming. This is the season to plant one seed: the Name.
The Arc
Look around. Flowers are opening everywhere, blossom after blossom. Let go of the proud "me first" feeling. Hold on to the One, and keep the One in your thoughts. Young green plants smell sweet after rain. Plants that stay stiff turn dry, like old wood. Spring has come, and everything bursts into bloom. This is a hard age, when people forget easily. It is the season to plant one seed, the Naam. Other seeds won't grow now. So stay steady, and let doubt pass by. Those blessed to meet the Guru find the One. Right now is the mind's season for the Naam. At the centre, the Rahao: O mind, keep the One in your thoughts, and bloom with the spring.
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 — O mind, this is the season of the Naam.
kaloo — Kali Yuga, in old Indian thinking the hardest of four great ages.
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.
Hukumnama
Subject: O mind, keep the One in your thoughts Preview: flowers everywhere, sweet young plants, dry old wood, a farmer's planting season.
Today: Look around. Flowers are opening everywhere, blossom after blossom. Let go of the proud "me first" feeling. Hold on to the One, and keep the One in your thoughts. Young green plants smell sweet after rain. Plants that stay stiff turn dry, like old wood. Spring has come, and everything bursts into bloom. This is a hard age, when people forget easily. It is the season to plant one seed, the Naam. Other seeds won't grow now. So stay steady, and let doubt pass by. Those blessed to meet the Guru find the One. Right now is the mind's season for the Naam.
O mind, keep the One in your thoughts, and bloom with the spring.
For today: Each time you see something green or blooming today, say the Naam once.
Look — everything is blooming. This is the season to plant one seed: the Name.
The Arc
Look around. Flowers are opening everywhere, blossom after blossom. Let go of the proud "me first" feeling. Hold on to the One, and keep the One in your thoughts. Young green plants smell sweet after rain. Plants that stay stiff turn dry, like old wood. Spring has come, and everything bursts into bloom. This is a hard age, when people forget easily. It is the season to plant one seed, the Naam. Other seeds won't grow now. So stay steady, and let doubt pass by. Those blessed to meet the Guru find the One. Right now is the mind's season for the Naam. At the centre, the Rahao: O mind, keep the One in your thoughts, and bloom with the spring.
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.
Hukumnama
Subject: O mind, keep the One in your thoughts Preview: flowers everywhere, sweet young plants, dry old wood, a farmer's planting season.
Today: Look around. Flowers are opening everywhere, blossom after blossom. Let go of the proud "me first" feeling. Hold on to the One, and keep the One in your thoughts. Young green plants smell sweet after rain. Plants that stay stiff turn dry, like old wood. Spring has come, and everything bursts into bloom. This is a hard age, when people forget easily. It is the season to plant one seed, the Naam. Other seeds won't grow now. So stay steady, and let doubt pass by. Those blessed to meet the Guru find the One. Right now is the mind's season for the Naam.
O mind, keep the One in your thoughts, and bloom with the spring.
For today: Each time you see something green or blooming today, say the Naam once.