"You are my Father and Mother; I am Your instrument, You the player."
The Arc
The One is your Father and your Mother. The One is your life, your breath, and the Giver of peace. You belong to the One, and the One is all you have. So ask for one gift: to sing the One's praises, day and night. You are an instrument, and the One plays the music through you. You come with open hands, and the One fills them. The One lives inside every heart. With holy people around you, you chant the Naam and sing. Pain eases, and your heart opens like a lotus in the morning sun. Give your all to the Guru, and keep singing. At the centre, the Rahao: the one gift to ask for is to sing the One's praises, day and night.
Key Vocabulary
Pitaa... maataa — father and mother in one breath.
Jant / bajaavanhaaraa — instrument and player.
Bhikhaaree — beggar; here open, empty hands toward grace.
Kamal bigaas — the heart-lotus blossoming (vigaas).
Themes and Cross-Connections
Both-parent imagery answers Shabad 58's father-and-child union. The instrument-and-player image belongs to musical Bhairao, and the blossoming lotus carries the old image of vigaas, the heart opening.
For Raag Bhairao
The instrument played by the divine, and the lotus opening to the morning sun, sit at the heart of a bright, musical dawn raag.
Hukumnama
Subject: Ask for one gift: to sing the One's praise Preview: a father and a mother, an instrument and its player, open hands, a lotus opening in the morning sun.
Today: The One is your Father and your Mother. The One is your life, your breath, and the Giver of peace. You belong to the One, and the One is all you have. So ask for one gift: to sing the One's praises, day and night. You are an instrument, and the One plays the music through you. You come with open hands, and the One fills them. The One lives inside every heart. With holy people around you, you chant the Naam and sing. Pain eases, and your heart opens like a lotus in the morning sun. Give your all to the Guru, and keep singing.
The one gift to ask for is to sing the One's praises, day and night.
For today: Sing or hum one song of thanks today, once in the morning and once at night.
"You are my Father and Mother; I am Your instrument, You the player."
The Arc
The One is your Father and your Mother. The One is your life, your breath, and the Giver of peace. You belong to the One, and the One is all you have. So ask for one gift: to sing the One's praises, day and night. You are an instrument, and the One plays the music through you. You come with open hands, and the One fills them. The One lives inside every heart. With holy people around you, you chant the Naam and sing. Pain eases, and your heart opens like a lotus in the morning sun. Give your all to the Guru, and keep singing. At the centre, the Rahao: the one gift to ask for is to sing the One's praises, day and night.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Both-parent imagery answers Shabad 58's father-and-child union. The instrument-and-player image belongs to musical Bhairao, and the blossoming lotus carries the old image of vigaas, the heart opening.
For Raag Bhairao
The instrument played by the divine, and the lotus opening to the morning sun, sit at the heart of a bright, musical dawn raag.
Hukumnama
Subject: Ask for one gift: to sing the One's praise Preview: a father and a mother, an instrument and its player, open hands, a lotus opening in the morning sun.
Today: The One is your Father and your Mother. The One is your life, your breath, and the Giver of peace. You belong to the One, and the One is all you have. So ask for one gift: to sing the One's praises, day and night. You are an instrument, and the One plays the music through you. You come with open hands, and the One fills them. The One lives inside every heart. With holy people around you, you chant the Naam and sing. Pain eases, and your heart opens like a lotus in the morning sun. Give your all to the Guru, and keep singing.
The one gift to ask for is to sing the One's praises, day and night.
For today: Sing or hum one song of thanks today, once in the morning and once at night.