Seen in woods and fields, in every seeker, in every scripture — the One is hidden from no one.
The Arc
Look around. The woods, the open fields, a busy family home, the quiet life of someone who has left it all behind. The One is in each of them. The yogi with a staff, the one who fasts, the pilgrim on a long road. Gather with people who remember the One, and you find it there. Look inside your own mind, and it is there too. High in the sky, deep below the ground, in everything. Joy like that turns into song. Seekers of every kind, actors, dancers. The old holy books all point to the same One. So who could the One hide from? No price fits it. Bow to every heart where it shines. At the centre, the Rahao: the One fills everything, high and low, and is found in the Sangat and inside your own mind.
Key Vocabulary
garihi / udaasaa-ay — household and renunciation, honoured equally
satsang / man maa-ay — the Sangat, and within one's own mind
ras mangal — joyful song, the overflow of recognition
chahu / khat / das astee / simmriti — the four Vedas, six Shaastras, eighteen Puranas, and Simritis, all declaring the One
bal bal jaa-ee-ai — giving yourself completely, again and again; a bow of love
Themes and Cross-Connections
Omnipresence, the equal honoring of every path, and seeing the One within and without recur across Guru Arjan's Bhairao shabads.
For Raag Bhairao
A bright dawn raag suits a hymn about seeing the One clearly, everywhere, in full daylight — nothing hidden, nothing in shadow.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One is everywhere, and inside you Preview: woods and fields, home and hermitage, staffs and matted hair, actors and dancers, the four Vedas.
Today: Look around. The woods, the open fields, a busy family home, the quiet life of someone who has left it all behind. The One is in each of them. The yogi with a staff, the one who fasts, the pilgrim on a long road. Gather with people who remember the One, and you find it there. Look inside your own mind, and it is there too. High in the sky, deep below the ground, in everything. Joy like that turns into song. Seekers of every kind, actors, dancers. The old holy books all point to the same One. So who could the One hide from? No price fits it. Bow to every heart where it shines.
The One fills everything, high and low, and lives inside your own mind too.
For today: Find one place today where you did not expect beauty, and stop to notice it.
Seen in woods and fields, in every seeker, in every scripture — the One is hidden from no one.
The Arc
Look around. The woods, the open fields, a busy family home, the quiet life of someone who has left it all behind. The One is in each of them. The yogi with a staff, the one who fasts, the pilgrim on a long road. Gather with people who remember the One, and you find it there. Look inside your own mind, and it is there too. High in the sky, deep below the ground, in everything. Joy like that turns into song. Seekers of every kind, actors, dancers. The old holy books all point to the same One. So who could the One hide from? No price fits it. Bow to every heart where it shines. At the centre, the Rahao: the One fills everything, high and low, and is found in the Sangat and inside your own mind.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Omnipresence, the equal honoring of every path, and seeing the One within and without recur across Guru Arjan's Bhairao shabads.
For Raag Bhairao
A bright dawn raag suits a hymn about seeing the One clearly, everywhere, in full daylight — nothing hidden, nothing in shadow.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One is everywhere, and inside you Preview: woods and fields, home and hermitage, staffs and matted hair, actors and dancers, the four Vedas.
Today: Look around. The woods, the open fields, a busy family home, the quiet life of someone who has left it all behind. The One is in each of them. The yogi with a staff, the one who fasts, the pilgrim on a long road. Gather with people who remember the One, and you find it there. Look inside your own mind, and it is there too. High in the sky, deep below the ground, in everything. Joy like that turns into song. Seekers of every kind, actors, dancers. The old holy books all point to the same One. So who could the One hide from? No price fits it. Bow to every heart where it shines.
The One fills everything, high and low, and lives inside your own mind too.
For today: Find one place today where you did not expect beauty, and stop to notice it.