Without You, nothing happens — so what is left to say but wonder?
The Arc
Look around you this morning. Nothing happens outside the One. Every living thing is made by the One and known by the One. Try to put that into words, and the words run out. Everything that exists moves in the flow of the One's will. Whatever needs doing rests in those hands. So when you need help, you know where to turn. Even the words you speak and the words you hear come from the One. The whole wondrous play is known to the One alone. The One acts, and sets everyone else moving too. The One watches it all, building things up and letting things go. At the centre, the Rahao: everything that exists moves in the flow of the One's will, too vast for words.
Key Vocabulary
rajaa-ay — will; the flow of existence, the way everything moves.
banee — the Word/utterance; here, language itself is the One's own.
sarab vidaanee — the wondrous play; vismaad, wonder.
thaap uthaap — establishing and un-establishing; creation held by a steady witness.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The keynote — nothing outside the One — recurs across the whole raag (see the Hukam shabad Shabad 11 and the mind shabad Shabad 13). Wonder-that-silences-speech links to Japji's vismaad passages.
For Raag Bhairao
Bhairao is an intense, bright dawn raag. This opener sets its mood as awe before an all-holding presence.
Hukumnama
Subject: Everything is in the flow of the One's will Preview: a Maker who knows each creature, words that run out, a wondrous play, things set up and taken down.
Today: Look around you this morning. Nothing happens outside the One. Every living thing is made by the One and known by the One. Try to put that into words, and the words run out. Everything that exists moves in the flow of the One's will. Whatever needs doing rests in those hands. So when you need help, you know where to turn. Even the words you speak and the words you hear come from the One. The whole wondrous play is known to the One alone. The One acts, and sets everyone else moving too. The One watches it all, building things up and letting things go.
Words run out, and everything that exists moves in the flow of the One's will.
For today: When words run out today, pause and notice one thing that fills you with wonder.
Without You, nothing happens — so what is left to say but wonder?
The Arc
Look around you this morning. Nothing happens outside the One. Every living thing is made by the One and known by the One. Try to put that into words, and the words run out. Everything that exists moves in the flow of the One's will. Whatever needs doing rests in those hands. So when you need help, you know where to turn. Even the words you speak and the words you hear come from the One. The whole wondrous play is known to the One alone. The One acts, and sets everyone else moving too. The One watches it all, building things up and letting things go. At the centre, the Rahao: everything that exists moves in the flow of the One's will, too vast for words.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The keynote — nothing outside the One — recurs across the whole raag (see the Hukam shabad Shabad 11 and the mind shabad Shabad 13). Wonder-that-silences-speech links to Japji's vismaad passages.
For Raag Bhairao
Bhairao is an intense, bright dawn raag. This opener sets its mood as awe before an all-holding presence.
Hukumnama
Subject: Everything is in the flow of the One's will Preview: a Maker who knows each creature, words that run out, a wondrous play, things set up and taken down.
Today: Look around you this morning. Nothing happens outside the One. Every living thing is made by the One and known by the One. Try to put that into words, and the words run out. Everything that exists moves in the flow of the One's will. Whatever needs doing rests in those hands. So when you need help, you know where to turn. Even the words you speak and the words you hear come from the One. The whole wondrous play is known to the One alone. The One acts, and sets everyone else moving too. The One watches it all, building things up and letting things go.
Words run out, and everything that exists moves in the flow of the One's will.
For today: When words run out today, pause and notice one thing that fills you with wonder.