Raag Bhairao, Shabad (three stanzas with rahau), Bhagat Kabir
My meditation rests on my own inmost self; the Tenth Gate opens onto the endless.
The Arc
Inside you there is a quiet, bright place, like a city where clear understanding lives. Go there and think things over. From there, this world and the next start to make sense. Saying "mine, mine" about everything loses its pull, since in the end everyone leaves it all behind. Let your attention rest deep within. The Naam is your wisdom. Gather your scattered energy, like drawing in loose reins. Steady the cool and warm currents inside you, and lift your attention up, calm and steady. Above the last window there is a Tenth Gate. Behind it lies something with no edge and no end. At the centre, the Rahao: rest your attention deep within, and the Naam of the Sovereign One becomes your wisdom.
Key Vocabulary
Siv kee puree — the city of the One (a high inner place of awareness). Bu-dh saar — sublime understanding. Ee-t oo-t — here and beyond (this world and the next). Nij pad — one's own inmost ground/self. Dhi-aan — meditation, focused attention. Barahm gi-aan — divine wisdom. Mool duaar — the root center. Rav / chand — sun / moon (the heating and cooling inner currents). Mayr dand — the central channel (sushumna). Dasvaa duaar — the Tenth Gate (the inner opening beyond the nine bodily gates). Ant na paar — no end or limit.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Kabir often speaks to yogis in their own idiom, honoring the depth of their inner practice while pointing through technique to the One — parallel to his address to the Mullah in 2441 and his redefinition of yogi/Hindu/Muslim in 2448. The Tenth Gate and the inner ascent are recurring GGS images for the meeting of the finite self with the boundless; the hymn's insistence that wisdom is nij pad (found within) rhymes with 2444's 'searching within, I met the One.'
For Raag Bhairao
Bhairao's alert, inward intensity suits a hymn of concentrated meditation. The raag's wakeful character matches the theme of gathering and lifting attention rather than dispersing it — a music of focus opening onto vastness.
Hukumnama
Subject: Look within, and the Naam is your wisdom Preview: a bright city inside, loose reins drawn in, a moon above a sun, a hidden window, a gate with no end.
Today: Inside you there is a quiet, bright place, like a city where clear understanding lives. Go there and think things over. From there, this world and the next start to make sense. Saying "mine, mine" about everything loses its pull, since in the end everyone leaves it all behind. Let your attention rest deep within. The Naam is your wisdom. Gather your scattered energy, like drawing in loose reins. Steady the cool and warm currents inside you, and lift your attention up, calm and steady. Above the last window there is a Tenth Gate. Behind it lies something with no edge and no end.
When your attention rests deep within, the Naam of the Sovereign One becomes your wisdom.
For today: Sit still for three minutes, gather your scattered thoughts, and rest your attention on the Naam.
My meditation rests on my own inmost self; the Tenth Gate opens onto the endless.
The Arc
Inside you there is a quiet, bright place, like a city where clear understanding lives. Go there and think things over. From there, this world and the next start to make sense. Saying "mine, mine" about everything loses its pull, since in the end everyone leaves it all behind. Let your attention rest deep within. The Naam is your wisdom. Gather your scattered energy, like drawing in loose reins. Steady the cool and warm currents inside you, and lift your attention up, calm and steady. Above the last window there is a Tenth Gate. Behind it lies something with no edge and no end. At the centre, the Rahao: rest your attention deep within, and the Naam of the Sovereign One becomes your wisdom.
Key Vocabulary
Siv kee puree — the city of the One (a high inner place of awareness). Bu-dh saar — sublime understanding. Ee-t oo-t — here and beyond (this world and the next). Nij pad — one's own inmost ground/self. Dhi-aan — meditation, focused attention. Barahm gi-aan — divine wisdom. Mool duaar — the root center. Rav / chand — sun / moon (the heating and cooling inner currents). Mayr dand — the central channel (sushumna). Dasvaa duaar — the Tenth Gate (the inner opening beyond the nine bodily gates). Ant na paar — no end or limit.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Kabir often speaks to yogis in their own idiom, honoring the depth of their inner practice while pointing through technique to the One — parallel to his address to the Mullah in 2441 and his redefinition of yogi/Hindu/Muslim in 2448. The Tenth Gate and the inner ascent are recurring GGS images for the meeting of the finite self with the boundless; the hymn's insistence that wisdom is nij pad (found within) rhymes with 2444's 'searching within, I met the One.'
For Raag Bhairao
Bhairao's alert, inward intensity suits a hymn of concentrated meditation. The raag's wakeful character matches the theme of gathering and lifting attention rather than dispersing it — a music of focus opening onto vastness.
Hukumnama
Subject: Look within, and the Naam is your wisdom Preview: a bright city inside, loose reins drawn in, a moon above a sun, a hidden window, a gate with no end.
Today: Inside you there is a quiet, bright place, like a city where clear understanding lives. Go there and think things over. From there, this world and the next start to make sense. Saying "mine, mine" about everything loses its pull, since in the end everyone leaves it all behind. Let your attention rest deep within. The Naam is your wisdom. Gather your scattered energy, like drawing in loose reins. Steady the cool and warm currents inside you, and lift your attention up, calm and steady. Above the last window there is a Tenth Gate. Behind it lies something with no edge and no end.
When your attention rests deep within, the Naam of the Sovereign One becomes your wisdom.
For today: Sit still for three minutes, gather your scattered thoughts, and rest your attention on the Naam.