When our goodness ripens, we hurry into the shelter.
The Arc
Some people walk away from the ones who love them at home to chase someone new. They are like a parrot that flies to a bright red flower, sure it is food. It finds only dry fluff and stays stuck there. A life spent on wrong choices burns like a house on fire that never goes out. Skip the place where the One is praised, leave the path, forget your roots, and you pour out the sweet stuff and load up on poison. A dazzling show can hide that time is short. The good written in you can send you running to the Guru's shelter. That is the way across. At the centre, the Rahao: the wrongdoer's home is on fire, and the fire keeps burning.
Key Vocabulary
Simbal the tree whose bright flower gives no fruit; chasing empty attractions.
Amrit / bikh nectar and poison; what heals versus what harms.
Karmaa good karma ripening on the forehead.
Gur kee sarnaa the Guru's sanctuary, the safe shelter.
Utarahu paar crossing over to the other side.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Craving as a fire that keeps burning; the difference between empty show and nourishment; grace and ripening goodness leading home to the Guru's shelter. Connects to the teaching across Gurbani that ego and craving are a disease with a cure.
For Raag Bhairao
A cautionary comp that Bhairao's brightness resolves into hope. The raag lifts the warning toward its safe harbor.
Hukumnama
Subject: A life of wrongdoing burns and never rests Preview: a parrot on a bright simbal flower, a house on fire, nectar poured out, a dancer in fine clothes.
Today: Some people walk away from the ones who love them at home to chase someone new. They are like a parrot that flies to a bright red flower, sure it is food. It finds only dry fluff and stays stuck there. A life spent on wrong choices burns like a house on fire that never goes out. Skip the place where the One is praised, leave the path, forget your roots, and you pour out the sweet stuff and load up on poison. A dazzling show can hide that time is short. The good written in you can send you running to the Guru's shelter. That is the way across.
A life given to doing wrong burns, and that fire keeps burning.
For today: Pick one good habit you have let slip and do it once today, on purpose.
When our goodness ripens, we hurry into the shelter.
The Arc
Some people walk away from the ones who love them at home to chase someone new. They are like a parrot that flies to a bright red flower, sure it is food. It finds only dry fluff and stays stuck there. A life spent on wrong choices burns like a house on fire that never goes out. Skip the place where the One is praised, leave the path, forget your roots, and you pour out the sweet stuff and load up on poison. A dazzling show can hide that time is short. The good written in you can send you running to the Guru's shelter. That is the way across. At the centre, the Rahao: the wrongdoer's home is on fire, and the fire keeps burning.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Craving as a fire that keeps burning; the difference between empty show and nourishment; grace and ripening goodness leading home to the Guru's shelter. Connects to the teaching across Gurbani that ego and craving are a disease with a cure.
For Raag Bhairao
A cautionary comp that Bhairao's brightness resolves into hope. The raag lifts the warning toward its safe harbor.
Hukumnama
Subject: A life of wrongdoing burns and never rests Preview: a parrot on a bright simbal flower, a house on fire, nectar poured out, a dancer in fine clothes.
Today: Some people walk away from the ones who love them at home to chase someone new. They are like a parrot that flies to a bright red flower, sure it is food. It finds only dry fluff and stays stuck there. A life spent on wrong choices burns like a house on fire that never goes out. Skip the place where the One is praised, leave the path, forget your roots, and you pour out the sweet stuff and load up on poison. A dazzling show can hide that time is short. The good written in you can send you running to the Guru's shelter. That is the way across.
A life given to doing wrong burns, and that fire keeps burning.
For today: Pick one good habit you have let slip and do it once today, on purpose.