Your body is a blossom for a season — but the lasting treasure lives right inside it.
The Arc
Your body is here for a season, like a blossom in spring. Inside it lives the One. Get to know that One as true. The riches of this world are like treasure in a dream. You wake, and your hands are empty. So why be proud of them? None of it goes along with you at the end. Loosen your grip. Let praise and blame both pass by. Fill your heart with songs of the One. Look at any person today. The same One fills them all the way through. At the centre, the Rahao: your body passes, and the One living inside it is what lasts.
Key Vocabulary
ih tan mithiaa — the passing body, here for a season.
saacho taahi pachhaano — recognize the One within as true.
sampat supne kee — dream-wealth, lovely but slipping away.
ustat nindaa do-oo parhar — setting aside both praise and blame.
sabh hee mai pooran — the One present in all, everywhere.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Treasure what lasts; steadiness beyond praise and blame; the One in everyone.
For Raag Basant
Basant's 'what lasts' question in Guru Tegh Bahadur's voice: the body a season, the Naam the one endless spring.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One inside you is what lasts Preview: a body here for a season, a treasure within, gold in a dream, praise and blame, one Being in everyone.
Today: Your body is here for a season, like a blossom in spring. Inside it lives the One. Get to know that One as true. The riches of this world are like treasure in a dream. You wake, and your hands are empty. So why be proud of them? None of it goes along with you at the end. Loosen your grip. Let praise and blame both pass by. Fill your heart with songs of the One. Look at any person today. The same One fills them all the way through.
Your body passes, and the One living inside it is what lasts.
For today: When someone praises or blames you today, take a breath and remember the One inside you both.
Your body is a blossom for a season — but the lasting treasure lives right inside it.
The Arc
Your body is here for a season, like a blossom in spring. Inside it lives the One. Get to know that One as true. The riches of this world are like treasure in a dream. You wake, and your hands are empty. So why be proud of them? None of it goes along with you at the end. Loosen your grip. Let praise and blame both pass by. Fill your heart with songs of the One. Look at any person today. The same One fills them all the way through. At the centre, the Rahao: your body passes, and the One living inside it is what lasts.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Treasure what lasts; steadiness beyond praise and blame; the One in everyone.
For Raag Basant
Basant's 'what lasts' question in Guru Tegh Bahadur's voice: the body a season, the Naam the one endless spring.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One inside you is what lasts Preview: a body here for a season, a treasure within, gold in a dream, praise and blame, one Being in everyone.
Today: Your body is here for a season, like a blossom in spring. Inside it lives the One. Get to know that One as true. The riches of this world are like treasure in a dream. You wake, and your hands are empty. So why be proud of them? None of it goes along with you at the end. Loosen your grip. Let praise and blame both pass by. Fill your heart with songs of the One. Look at any person today. The same One fills them all the way through.
Your body passes, and the One living inside it is what lasts.
For today: When someone praises or blames you today, take a breath and remember the One inside you both.