O my tongue, be dyed in the brightest color there is, the Naam.
The Arc
Your tongue has one big job. Use it for the Naam, or what is it for? Let your words soak in the Naam, the way cloth soaks in dye until the color runs all the way through. That color is the brightest there is, and it stays. Every other task your tongue picks up fades. Deep, lasting peace comes through the Naam. You could do a million other kinds of worship. One loving moment with the Naam outweighs them all. So make this your life's work. Look around. The One shows up in endless forms, in every face you see today. At the centre, the Rahao: let your words be dyed in the Naam.
Key Vocabulary
Jihbaa the tongue, whose truest work is the Name.
Surang the most excellent, unfading color, into which the tongue is dyed.
Nirbaan pad the state of deep, unshakable peace (nirvana), reached through the Name.
Anant roop the endless forms of the One, the immanence teaching.
Naaraa-in / Gobind names of the One, held tenderly.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Devotion over ritual quantity; the Naam as the one worthy work of speech; and the closing immanence line, the One in endless forms, which opens Namdev's whole Bhairao theme of the One in everything. Quality of love outweighs quantity of ritual.
For Raag Bhairao
The opening composition of Namdev's Bhairao (Ghar 1). Bhairao's boldness here becomes the boldness of single-hearted love.
Hukumnama
Subject: Let your words be dyed in the Naam Preview: a tongue, cloth soaked in dye, the brightest color, a million rituals, and endless faces.
Today: Your tongue has one big job. Use it for the Naam, or what is it for? Let your words soak in the Naam, the way cloth soaks in dye until the color runs all the way through. That color is the brightest there is, and it stays. Every other task your tongue picks up fades. Deep, lasting peace comes through the Naam. You could do a million other kinds of worship. One loving moment with the Naam outweighs them all. So make this your life's work. Look around. The One shows up in endless forms, in every face you see today.
Let your words be dyed in the Naam.
For today: Before you speak today, pick one word you can say with love, and say it.
O my tongue, be dyed in the brightest color there is, the Naam.
The Arc
Your tongue has one big job. Use it for the Naam, or what is it for? Let your words soak in the Naam, the way cloth soaks in dye until the color runs all the way through. That color is the brightest there is, and it stays. Every other task your tongue picks up fades. Deep, lasting peace comes through the Naam. You could do a million other kinds of worship. One loving moment with the Naam outweighs them all. So make this your life's work. Look around. The One shows up in endless forms, in every face you see today. At the centre, the Rahao: let your words be dyed in the Naam.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Devotion over ritual quantity; the Naam as the one worthy work of speech; and the closing immanence line, the One in endless forms, which opens Namdev's whole Bhairao theme of the One in everything. Quality of love outweighs quantity of ritual.
For Raag Bhairao
The opening composition of Namdev's Bhairao (Ghar 1). Bhairao's boldness here becomes the boldness of single-hearted love.
Hukumnama
Subject: Let your words be dyed in the Naam Preview: a tongue, cloth soaked in dye, the brightest color, a million rituals, and endless faces.
Today: Your tongue has one big job. Use it for the Naam, or what is it for? Let your words soak in the Naam, the way cloth soaks in dye until the color runs all the way through. That color is the brightest there is, and it stays. Every other task your tongue picks up fades. Deep, lasting peace comes through the Naam. You could do a million other kinds of worship. One loving moment with the Naam outweighs them all. So make this your life's work. Look around. The One shows up in endless forms, in every face you see today.
Let your words be dyed in the Naam.
For today: Before you speak today, pick one word you can say with love, and say it.