The scent you are hunting for outside is already inside you — and the Naam erases every line of caste.
The Arc
New clothes can make you feel ten feet tall. You check the mirror and puff up. Pride like that finds no room near the One. Your time here is short, like a crow calling overhead. Even a mushroom after summer rain outlasts your showing off. A deer carries sweet musk in its own body and runs all over the forest sniffing for it. Look inside yourself, and fear loses its grip. Pride in your family and your things can't carry you forever. One day you give an account of your life. Stay close to holy people, and old mistakes melt away. Keep the Naam, and class and birth stop sorting you. At the centre, the Rahao: your time here is short, so pride has nothing to stand on.
Key Vocabulary
garab — pride.
khoombraaj — the summer mushroom.
kurank — the musk-deer.
sugandh — fragrance (the musk within).
jaat, janam, jon — class, birth, rebirth.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The musk-deer is one of the tradition's most beloved images for seeking outside what one already carries within, echoing Raamaanand's inward home in this same block. Ravi Daas's caste-leveling close stands with Kabir's sabh samaan (Shabad 76) and the Basant Hindol purity critique (Shabad 82) as the raag's leveling thread.
For Raag Basant
Within Raag Basant, the musk-within-the-deer is spring's own secret: the life you seek is already inside you. And the caste-erasing close makes that spring belong to everyone, with no line of birth allowed to fence it in.
Hukumnama
Subject: Why so proud, when your time is short? Preview: fine clothes, a calling crow, a summer mushroom, a musk deer sniffing far away, a family to be proud of
Today: New clothes can make you feel ten feet tall. You check the mirror and puff up. Pride like that finds no room near the One. Your time here is short, like a crow calling overhead. Even a mushroom after summer rain outlasts your showing off. A deer carries sweet musk in its own body and runs all over the forest sniffing for it. Look inside yourself, and fear loses its grip. Pride in your family and your things can't carry you forever. One day you give an account of your life. Stay close to holy people, and old mistakes melt away. Keep the Naam, and class and birth stop sorting you.
Your time here is short, so pride has nothing to stand on.
For today: Compliment one person today on something kind they did.
The scent you are hunting for outside is already inside you — and the Naam erases every line of caste.
The Arc
New clothes can make you feel ten feet tall. You check the mirror and puff up. Pride like that finds no room near the One. Your time here is short, like a crow calling overhead. Even a mushroom after summer rain outlasts your showing off. A deer carries sweet musk in its own body and runs all over the forest sniffing for it. Look inside yourself, and fear loses its grip. Pride in your family and your things can't carry you forever. One day you give an account of your life. Stay close to holy people, and old mistakes melt away. Keep the Naam, and class and birth stop sorting you. At the centre, the Rahao: your time here is short, so pride has nothing to stand on.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The musk-deer is one of the tradition's most beloved images for seeking outside what one already carries within, echoing Raamaanand's inward home in this same block. Ravi Daas's caste-leveling close stands with Kabir's sabh samaan (Shabad 76) and the Basant Hindol purity critique (Shabad 82) as the raag's leveling thread.
For Raag Basant
Within Raag Basant, the musk-within-the-deer is spring's own secret: the life you seek is already inside you. And the caste-erasing close makes that spring belong to everyone, with no line of birth allowed to fence it in.
Hukumnama
Subject: Why so proud, when your time is short? Preview: fine clothes, a calling crow, a summer mushroom, a musk deer sniffing far away, a family to be proud of
Today: New clothes can make you feel ten feet tall. You check the mirror and puff up. Pride like that finds no room near the One. Your time here is short, like a crow calling overhead. Even a mushroom after summer rain outlasts your showing off. A deer carries sweet musk in its own body and runs all over the forest sniffing for it. Look inside yourself, and fear loses its grip. Pride in your family and your things can't carry you forever. One day you give an account of your life. Stay close to holy people, and old mistakes melt away. Keep the Naam, and class and birth stop sorting you.
Your time here is short, so pride has nothing to stand on.
For today: Compliment one person today on something kind they did.