Make your gameboard out of good deeds and truth — and win the one game the One loves to watch.
The Arc
Life is a board game, and your friends are gathering to play. Put away the two-minded feeling and sit down together. Here is how to throw your dice: keep the Naam with you, day and night. Then even the very end of the game comes without pain. Good, fair actions are your board. Truth is your dice. The players to beat are inside you: craving, anger, greed and clinging. Start the day fresh, and remember the One before you sleep. On the hardest moves, the Guru helps you across. The One made the game, plays it, and watches. Play turned toward the Guru, and you win and come home. At the centre, the Rahao: keep the Naam with you day and night, and the end comes gently.
Key Vocabulary
dubidhaa door — dropping double-mindedness before the game begins.
paasaa dhaalahu — casting the dice of life.
chauparh saajahu... saaree — the board and pieces made of deeds and truth.
bikhrhe daau langhaavai — carried over the difficult throws.
jin baajee ghar aaiaa — winning the game and coming home.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Life as a game of chaupar; the opponents to beat are one's own habits.
For Raag Basant
A playful Hindol turn within Basant — the springtime game of a life well played.
Hukumnama
Subject: Keep the Naam with you, day and night Preview: friends around a game mat, dice rolling, a board of good deeds, the hardest moves, the way home.
Today: Life is a board game, and your friends are gathering to play. Put away the two-minded feeling and sit down together. Here is how to throw your dice: keep the Naam with you, day and night. Then even the very end of the game comes without pain. Good, fair actions are your board. Truth is your dice. The players to beat are inside you: craving, anger, greed and clinging. Start the day fresh, and remember the One before you sleep. On the hardest moves, the Guru helps you across. The One made the game, plays it, and watches. Play turned toward the Guru, and you win and come home.
Keep the Naam with you day and night, and the end comes gently.
For today: Before bed tonight, spend one minute remembering the One, like folding up the game mat for the day.
Make your gameboard out of good deeds and truth — and win the one game the One loves to watch.
The Arc
Life is a board game, and your friends are gathering to play. Put away the two-minded feeling and sit down together. Here is how to throw your dice: keep the Naam with you, day and night. Then even the very end of the game comes without pain. Good, fair actions are your board. Truth is your dice. The players to beat are inside you: craving, anger, greed and clinging. Start the day fresh, and remember the One before you sleep. On the hardest moves, the Guru helps you across. The One made the game, plays it, and watches. Play turned toward the Guru, and you win and come home. At the centre, the Rahao: keep the Naam with you day and night, and the end comes gently.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Life as a game of chaupar; the opponents to beat are one's own habits.
For Raag Basant
A playful Hindol turn within Basant — the springtime game of a life well played.
Hukumnama
Subject: Keep the Naam with you, day and night Preview: friends around a game mat, dice rolling, a board of good deeds, the hardest moves, the way home.
Today: Life is a board game, and your friends are gathering to play. Put away the two-minded feeling and sit down together. Here is how to throw your dice: keep the Naam with you, day and night. Then even the very end of the game comes without pain. Good, fair actions are your board. Truth is your dice. The players to beat are inside you: craving, anger, greed and clinging. Start the day fresh, and remember the One before you sleep. On the hardest moves, the Guru helps you across. The One made the game, plays it, and watches. Play turned toward the Guru, and you win and come home.
Keep the Naam with you day and night, and the end comes gently.
For today: Before bed tonight, spend one minute remembering the One, like folding up the game mat for the day.