Some people pick one special day and say the Lord was born on it. Everyone wants to hold the One close. Doubt can make the boundless look small, though. The One is never born and never dies. You can bake sweets for a statue and sing it lullabies. The One stays bigger than anything you can tuck into bed. Calling the Master someone who was born shrinks the whole sky down to one room. Let those words go. The One never comes and never goes. The One fills everything, everywhere, right now, including you. At the centre, the Rahao: the One is beyond birth and death.
Key Vocabulary
astam theet — the eighth lunar day (an allusion to Krishna Janmashtami).
bharam — doubt or confusion; here, picturing the Infinite as born.
The One beyond birth and death; the Infinite larger than any single form. This connects to Ik Onkar as oneness beyond any bounded image, and to Guru Arjan's formless One in Shabad 39.
For Raag Bhairao
Guru Arjan's clear dawn-note; the raag's brightness suits a shabad about the boundless.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One is beyond birth and death Preview: a day set apart, sweets for a stone image, lullabies, a Lord who fills everything everywhere.
Today: Some people pick one special day and say the Lord was born on it. Everyone wants to hold the One close. Doubt can make the boundless look small, though. The One is never born and never dies. You can bake sweets for a statue and sing it lullabies. The One stays bigger than anything you can tuck into bed. Calling the Master someone who was born shrinks the whole sky down to one room. Let those words go. The One never comes and never goes. The One fills everything, everywhere, right now, including you.
The One is beyond birth and death, here always.
For today: Look up at the sky for one full minute today and let it feel as big as it is.
"Never born, never dying, never coming or going."
The Arc
Some people pick one special day and say the Lord was born on it. Everyone wants to hold the One close. Doubt can make the boundless look small, though. The One is never born and never dies. You can bake sweets for a statue and sing it lullabies. The One stays bigger than anything you can tuck into bed. Calling the Master someone who was born shrinks the whole sky down to one room. Let those words go. The One never comes and never goes. The One fills everything, everywhere, right now, including you. At the centre, the Rahao: the One is beyond birth and death.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The One beyond birth and death; the Infinite larger than any single form. This connects to Ik Onkar as oneness beyond any bounded image, and to Guru Arjan's formless One in Shabad 39.
For Raag Bhairao
Guru Arjan's clear dawn-note; the raag's brightness suits a shabad about the boundless.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One is beyond birth and death Preview: a day set apart, sweets for a stone image, lullabies, a Lord who fills everything everywhere.
Today: Some people pick one special day and say the Lord was born on it. Everyone wants to hold the One close. Doubt can make the boundless look small, though. The One is never born and never dies. You can bake sweets for a statue and sing it lullabies. The One stays bigger than anything you can tuck into bed. Calling the Master someone who was born shrinks the whole sky down to one room. Let those words go. The One never comes and never goes. The One fills everything, everywhere, right now, including you.
The One is beyond birth and death, here always.
For today: Look up at the sky for one full minute today and let it feel as big as it is.