Raag Bhairao, Shabad (four stanzas with rahau), Bhagat Kabir
Make your mind Mecca and your body the temple — Hindu and Muslim have one Lord.
The Arc
You can carry the holiest place with you. Let your mind be Mecca and your body the place you face to pray. Listen for the voice that speaks inside you. Your body is a mosque with ten doors, and prayer rises from within it. The offering that counts is your own dark moods, doubt and unkindness. Let them go. Calm the five troublemakers inside, and contentment settles in. Hindus and Muslims have one Master. No teacher on either side can split them apart. When you quiet your mind again and again, you sink into deep, easy peace. People may call it madness. You can call it home. At the centre, the Rahao: give the call to prayer, and know the one mosque with ten doors is your own body.
Key Vocabulary
Makaa / kiblaa — Mecca / the direction of prayer. Dayhee / kaa-i-aa — the body. Param gur — the supreme (inner) teacher. Baang / nivaaj — the call to prayer / prayer itself. Maseet — mosque. Das darvaaj — the ten doors (the body's gates/senses). Misimil — (echoing ritual slaughter) to sacrifice/subdue. Taamas / bharam / kadooree — dark heaviness / doubt / bitterness. Panch — the five inner thieves (anger, greed, attachment, lust, ego). Sabooree — contentment (a Sufi term). Saahib — Lord, Master. Divaanaa — mad (as the world sees someone lost in love for the One). Sahj — natural, effortless poise/stillness.
Themes and Cross-Connections
This is the beating heart of the Bhagat bani's witness that every faith shares one Master and pairs closely with Shabad 110 (the true Mullah/Qazi/Sultan) and Shabad 106 (leaving both Pandit and Mullah behind). Kabir's method — using a tradition's own sacred vocabulary to point past its externals to the shared One — is echoed across the GGS, including the Gurus' own insistence that there is neither Hindu nor Muslim in the deepest sense, only the human being before the One.
For Raag Bhairao
Bhairao carries both intensity and clarity, well suited to a hymn that is at once fierce (against division) and serene (its close in sahj). The raag's wakeful character matches the summons to a worship that is alert and inward rather than merely performed.
Hukumnama
Subject: Your body is a mosque with ten doors Preview: Mecca in the mind, a mosque with ten doors, the call to prayer, five troublemakers, one Master.
Today: You can carry the holiest place with you. Let your mind be Mecca and your body the place you face to pray. Listen for the voice that speaks inside you. Your body is a mosque with ten doors, and prayer rises from within it. The offering that counts is your own dark moods, doubt and unkindness. Let them go. Calm the five troublemakers inside, and contentment settles in. Hindus and Muslims have one Master. No teacher on either side can split them apart. When you quiet your mind again and again, you sink into deep, easy peace. People may call it madness. You can call it home.
Your own body is a mosque with ten doors, and prayer rises inside it.
For today: Take one quiet minute today and listen to the voice of truth inside you.
Make your mind Mecca and your body the temple — Hindu and Muslim have one Lord.
The Arc
You can carry the holiest place with you. Let your mind be Mecca and your body the place you face to pray. Listen for the voice that speaks inside you. Your body is a mosque with ten doors, and prayer rises from within it. The offering that counts is your own dark moods, doubt and unkindness. Let them go. Calm the five troublemakers inside, and contentment settles in. Hindus and Muslims have one Master. No teacher on either side can split them apart. When you quiet your mind again and again, you sink into deep, easy peace. People may call it madness. You can call it home. At the centre, the Rahao: give the call to prayer, and know the one mosque with ten doors is your own body.
Key Vocabulary
Makaa / kiblaa — Mecca / the direction of prayer. Dayhee / kaa-i-aa — the body. Param gur — the supreme (inner) teacher. Baang / nivaaj — the call to prayer / prayer itself. Maseet — mosque. Das darvaaj — the ten doors (the body's gates/senses). Misimil — (echoing ritual slaughter) to sacrifice/subdue. Taamas / bharam / kadooree — dark heaviness / doubt / bitterness. Panch — the five inner thieves (anger, greed, attachment, lust, ego). Sabooree — contentment (a Sufi term). Saahib — Lord, Master. Divaanaa — mad (as the world sees someone lost in love for the One). Sahj — natural, effortless poise/stillness.
Themes and Cross-Connections
This is the beating heart of the Bhagat bani's witness that every faith shares one Master and pairs closely with Shabad 110 (the true Mullah/Qazi/Sultan) and Shabad 106 (leaving both Pandit and Mullah behind). Kabir's method — using a tradition's own sacred vocabulary to point past its externals to the shared One — is echoed across the GGS, including the Gurus' own insistence that there is neither Hindu nor Muslim in the deepest sense, only the human being before the One.
For Raag Bhairao
Bhairao carries both intensity and clarity, well suited to a hymn that is at once fierce (against division) and serene (its close in sahj). The raag's wakeful character matches the summons to a worship that is alert and inward rather than merely performed.
Hukumnama
Subject: Your body is a mosque with ten doors Preview: Mecca in the mind, a mosque with ten doors, the call to prayer, five troublemakers, one Master.
Today: You can carry the holiest place with you. Let your mind be Mecca and your body the place you face to pray. Listen for the voice that speaks inside you. Your body is a mosque with ten doors, and prayer rises from within it. The offering that counts is your own dark moods, doubt and unkindness. Let them go. Calm the five troublemakers inside, and contentment settles in. Hindus and Muslims have one Master. No teacher on either side can split them apart. When you quiet your mind again and again, you sink into deep, easy peace. People may call it madness. You can call it home.
Your own body is a mosque with ten doors, and prayer rises inside it.
For today: Take one quiet minute today and listen to the voice of truth inside you.