The One is the bee and the blossom and the vine — the very fragrance that wakes the woods to green.
The Arc
Picture a bee on a flower on a vine. The One is all three at once, and the One brings you to the Sangat and the Guru. Breathe in the scent that makes trees bloom and woods go green. The One is the good fortune and the one who holds it. The One is the calf, the cow and the milk, and the pillar holding up your body. The One is the deed and the doer. The One keeps making and keeps watching, holding up countless lives. The One is a deep ocean of good, spotless, needing no one. The people of the One live at peace. One taste of the Naam fills you up. At the centre, the Rahao: drink in the fragrance that makes the whole woods flower and turn green.
Key Vocabulary
bhavraa — the bumblebee.
baas — fragrance; here, the scent of the Name.
kavlaa — Lakshmi, good fortune / wealth.
akul — without lineage; belonging to no caste or clan.
dhraape — satisfied, filled all the way through.
param heer — the supreme jewel.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Panentheism — the One as the whole living scene rather than a maker outside it. Caste-leveling in akul niranjan (the One belongs to no clan). The Name as fragrance and fullness ties the hymn to Nanak's theme that closeness to the One is what makes life taste of anything at all.
For Raag Basant
The fullest spring keynote in Basant: the bee and the fragrance that bursts the trees into blossom and greens the woods (rahau) is the Basant image itself — the season named, and the Naam pictured as the very scent that wakes it.
Hukumnama
Subject: Drink in the scent that wakes the woods Preview: a bee on a vine, calf and cow and milk, deed and doer, an ocean of good, one taste that fills you
Today: Picture a bee on a flower on a vine. The One is all three at once, and the One brings you to the Sangat and the Guru. Breathe in the scent that makes trees bloom and woods go green. The One is the good fortune and the one who holds it. The One is the calf, the cow and the milk, and the pillar holding up your body. The One is the deed and the doer. The One keeps making and keeps watching, holding up countless lives. The One is a deep ocean of good, spotless, needing no one. The people of the One live at peace. One taste of the Naam fills you up.
Drink in the fragrance that makes the whole woods flower and turn green.
For today: Step outside, breathe in something growing, and let it remind you of the One.
The One is the bee and the blossom and the vine — the very fragrance that wakes the woods to green.
The Arc
Picture a bee on a flower on a vine. The One is all three at once, and the One brings you to the Sangat and the Guru. Breathe in the scent that makes trees bloom and woods go green. The One is the good fortune and the one who holds it. The One is the calf, the cow and the milk, and the pillar holding up your body. The One is the deed and the doer. The One keeps making and keeps watching, holding up countless lives. The One is a deep ocean of good, spotless, needing no one. The people of the One live at peace. One taste of the Naam fills you up. At the centre, the Rahao: drink in the fragrance that makes the whole woods flower and turn green.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Panentheism — the One as the whole living scene rather than a maker outside it. Caste-leveling in akul niranjan (the One belongs to no clan). The Name as fragrance and fullness ties the hymn to Nanak's theme that closeness to the One is what makes life taste of anything at all.
For Raag Basant
The fullest spring keynote in Basant: the bee and the fragrance that bursts the trees into blossom and greens the woods (rahau) is the Basant image itself — the season named, and the Naam pictured as the very scent that wakes it.
Hukumnama
Subject: Drink in the scent that wakes the woods Preview: a bee on a vine, calf and cow and milk, deed and doer, an ocean of good, one taste that fills you
Today: Picture a bee on a flower on a vine. The One is all three at once, and the One brings you to the Sangat and the Guru. Breathe in the scent that makes trees bloom and woods go green. The One is the good fortune and the one who holds it. The One is the calf, the cow and the milk, and the pillar holding up your body. The One is the deed and the doer. The One keeps making and keeps watching, holding up countless lives. The One is a deep ocean of good, spotless, needing no one. The people of the One live at peace. One taste of the Naam fills you up.
Drink in the fragrance that makes the whole woods flower and turn green.
For today: Step outside, breathe in something growing, and let it remind you of the One.