Har kaa naam dhi-aa-ay kai hohu hari-aa bhaa-ee — remember the Naam, and your whole life turns green.
The Arc
Picture a field in early spring, turning green almost overnight. That can happen inside you. Remember the One, and you come alive. Woods, grass, the whole world bloom around you. Sit with good people, and peace wells up. The five big pulls inside you, craving, anger, greed, clinging and pride, settle down when you lean on the One. Sickness and sorrow lift. You feel fresh again. You came from the One, and you go back to the One, like a drop to the ocean. Where did you come from? Where are you going? You belong to the One. Listen, remember, and grow beautiful. At the centre, the opening line: remember the Naam of the One, and turn green and alive.
Key Vocabulary
vaar (a ballad-form composition); hari-aa (green, alive); rut (season); amrit fal (nectar-fruit); saadhoo (holy company); chhaa-ee (shadow); simran (remembrance); panj (the five forces); niro-aa (ever-well, whole); agam agochar (beyond reach and grasp); sach (Truth).
Themes and Cross-Connections
The Name as spring and green life; the five forces calmed; homecoming as a drop returning to the ocean; the three great questions of existence; deep listening making the heart beautiful.
For Raag Basant
This is the Basant Kee Vaar — the only Vaar in all of Raag Basant, and its purest statement. The entire teaching of the raag is compressed into three short pauris: remember the Name, and turn green, alive, and at home. Its very first line — become green — is the seed of the whole raag.
Hukumnama
Subject: Remember the Naam and turn green Preview: woods and grass in bloom, nectar fruit, five pulls tied down, a drop returning to the ocean.
Today: Picture a field in early spring, turning green almost overnight. That can happen inside you. Remember the One, and you come alive. Woods, grass, the whole world bloom around you. Sit with good people, and peace wells up. The five big pulls inside you, craving, anger, greed, clinging and pride, settle down when you lean on the One. Sickness and sorrow lift. You feel fresh again. You came from the One, and you go back to the One, like a drop to the ocean. Where did you come from? Where are you going? You belong to the One. Listen, remember, and grow beautiful.
Remember the Naam of the One, and your life turns green.
For today: Find one green, growing thing outside, and let it remind you of the One.
Har kaa naam dhi-aa-ay kai hohu hari-aa bhaa-ee — remember the Naam, and your whole life turns green.
The Arc
Picture a field in early spring, turning green almost overnight. That can happen inside you. Remember the One, and you come alive. Woods, grass, the whole world bloom around you. Sit with good people, and peace wells up. The five big pulls inside you, craving, anger, greed, clinging and pride, settle down when you lean on the One. Sickness and sorrow lift. You feel fresh again. You came from the One, and you go back to the One, like a drop to the ocean. Where did you come from? Where are you going? You belong to the One. Listen, remember, and grow beautiful. At the centre, the opening line: remember the Naam of the One, and turn green and alive.
Key Vocabulary
vaar (a ballad-form composition); hari-aa (green, alive); rut (season); amrit fal (nectar-fruit); saadhoo (holy company); chhaa-ee (shadow); simran (remembrance); panj (the five forces); niro-aa (ever-well, whole); agam agochar (beyond reach and grasp); sach (Truth).
Themes and Cross-Connections
The Name as spring and green life; the five forces calmed; homecoming as a drop returning to the ocean; the three great questions of existence; deep listening making the heart beautiful.
For Raag Basant
This is the Basant Kee Vaar — the only Vaar in all of Raag Basant, and its purest statement. The entire teaching of the raag is compressed into three short pauris: remember the Name, and turn green, alive, and at home. Its very first line — become green — is the seed of the whole raag.
Hukumnama
Subject: Remember the Naam and turn green Preview: woods and grass in bloom, nectar fruit, five pulls tied down, a drop returning to the ocean.
Today: Picture a field in early spring, turning green almost overnight. That can happen inside you. Remember the One, and you come alive. Woods, grass, the whole world bloom around you. Sit with good people, and peace wells up. The five big pulls inside you, craving, anger, greed, clinging and pride, settle down when you lean on the One. Sickness and sorrow lift. You feel fresh again. You came from the One, and you go back to the One, like a drop to the ocean. Where did you come from? Where are you going? You belong to the One. Listen, remember, and grow beautiful.
Remember the Naam of the One, and your life turns green.
For today: Find one green, growing thing outside, and let it remind you of the One.