Life keeps turning like a wheel. Some days the table is full and you hardly notice. Some days there is barely enough, and you ask for help. You can live the way the One keeps you, and trust it. The One's greatness is bigger than any words. One day you ride high, the next you walk with no shoes. One night a soft bed with clean sheets, another night bare ground. Through every turn, the Naam carries you across. Meet the Guru, and you reach the other side. At the centre, the Rahao: as the One keeps us, so we live, and the One's glory is beyond words.
Key Vocabulary
Ji-o raam raakhai as the One keeps us; the flow of existence (Hukam).
Mahimaa the glory of the One, beyond description.
Naam nistaarai the Naam that carries us across.
Gur milai meeting the Guru, the Guiding Light.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Equanimity through changing fortune; trust in the flow of existence (Hukam); the Naam as the steady thread through every condition. Connects to the Hukam and sahaj teachings across Gurbani and to Guru Nanak's river-of-existence imagery.
For Raag Bhairao
A steadying comp for Bhairao. The raag's strength becomes the strength to rest in whatever comes.
Hukumnama
Subject: Live the way the One keeps you Preview: rich food and begged bread, prancing horses and bare feet, white sheets and bare ground, a ferry across.
Today: Life keeps turning like a wheel. Some days the table is full and you hardly notice. Some days there is barely enough, and you ask for help. You can live the way the One keeps you, and trust it. The One's greatness is bigger than any words. One day you ride high, the next you walk with no shoes. One night a soft bed with clean sheets, another night bare ground. Through every turn, the Naam carries you across. Meet the Guru, and you reach the other side.
However the One keeps you, live in it and trust it.
For today: Name one thing you have today that you usually take for granted, and say thanks for it.
However life keeps me, so I live.
The Arc
Life keeps turning like a wheel. Some days the table is full and you hardly notice. Some days there is barely enough, and you ask for help. You can live the way the One keeps you, and trust it. The One's greatness is bigger than any words. One day you ride high, the next you walk with no shoes. One night a soft bed with clean sheets, another night bare ground. Through every turn, the Naam carries you across. Meet the Guru, and you reach the other side. At the centre, the Rahao: as the One keeps us, so we live, and the One's glory is beyond words.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Equanimity through changing fortune; trust in the flow of existence (Hukam); the Naam as the steady thread through every condition. Connects to the Hukam and sahaj teachings across Gurbani and to Guru Nanak's river-of-existence imagery.
For Raag Bhairao
A steadying comp for Bhairao. The raag's strength becomes the strength to rest in whatever comes.
Hukumnama
Subject: Live the way the One keeps you Preview: rich food and begged bread, prancing horses and bare feet, white sheets and bare ground, a ferry across.
Today: Life keeps turning like a wheel. Some days the table is full and you hardly notice. Some days there is barely enough, and you ask for help. You can live the way the One keeps you, and trust it. The One's greatness is bigger than any words. One day you ride high, the next you walk with no shoes. One night a soft bed with clean sheets, another night bare ground. Through every turn, the Naam carries you across. Meet the Guru, and you reach the other side.
However the One keeps you, live in it and trust it.
For today: Name one thing you have today that you usually take for granted, and say thanks for it.