"Contempt is a weight you load onto your own shoulders."
The Arc
Speaking badly of good people hurts you most. It leaves you wandering, sick and sore, and death is hard on you. Quarrel with good people, and joy goes missing. Scorn breaks down the body's wall and costs you your place. You eat what you plant. Scorn makes you worse than a thief, and it puts a crushing load on your own head. The devotees of the One hold no hate and seek no revenge. Bow to them, come close with respect, and you are set free. What you have done leaves its mark, so plant kindly. At the centre, the Rahao: quarreling with good people brings no joy at all.
Key Vocabulary
nindaa — slander, contempt for the good.
baad — quarrel, argument.
aap beej aapay khaahi — you eat what you plant (karma).
nirvair — without enmity, free of hatred.
poojai pair — to honor (literally, to touch the feet).
Themes and Cross-Connections
How ill-will corrodes the one who carries it; karma; the enmity-free heart of the good; the refusal of vengeance that levels every division. Connects to haumai as self-inflicted suffering.
For Raag Bhairao
Bhairao's intensity suits a stern warning, and the raag's morning brightness carries the turn in the last verse: the good hold no grudge.
Hukumnama
Subject: Fights with good people bring no joy Preview: a broken wall, a lost throne, a seed that grows back, a crushing load, people who hold no grudge.
Today: Speaking badly of good people hurts you most. It leaves you wandering, sick and sore, and death is hard on you. Quarrel with good people, and joy goes missing. Scorn breaks down the body's wall and costs you your place. You eat what you plant. Scorn makes you worse than a thief, and it puts a crushing load on your own head. The devotees of the One hold no hate and seek no revenge. Bow to them, come close with respect, and you are set free. What you have done leaves its mark, so plant kindly.
Quarreling with good people brings no joy at all.
For today: Say one kind thing today about someone you have found hard to like.
"Contempt is a weight you load onto your own shoulders."
The Arc
Speaking badly of good people hurts you most. It leaves you wandering, sick and sore, and death is hard on you. Quarrel with good people, and joy goes missing. Scorn breaks down the body's wall and costs you your place. You eat what you plant. Scorn makes you worse than a thief, and it puts a crushing load on your own head. The devotees of the One hold no hate and seek no revenge. Bow to them, come close with respect, and you are set free. What you have done leaves its mark, so plant kindly. At the centre, the Rahao: quarreling with good people brings no joy at all.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
How ill-will corrodes the one who carries it; karma; the enmity-free heart of the good; the refusal of vengeance that levels every division. Connects to haumai as self-inflicted suffering.
For Raag Bhairao
Bhairao's intensity suits a stern warning, and the raag's morning brightness carries the turn in the last verse: the good hold no grudge.
Hukumnama
Subject: Fights with good people bring no joy Preview: a broken wall, a lost throne, a seed that grows back, a crushing load, people who hold no grudge.
Today: Speaking badly of good people hurts you most. It leaves you wandering, sick and sore, and death is hard on you. Quarrel with good people, and joy goes missing. Scorn breaks down the body's wall and costs you your place. You eat what you plant. Scorn makes you worse than a thief, and it puts a crushing load on your own head. The devotees of the One hold no hate and seek no revenge. Bow to them, come close with respect, and you are set free. What you have done leaves its mark, so plant kindly.
Quarreling with good people brings no joy at all.
For today: Say one kind thing today about someone you have found hard to like.