Gobind, Gobind, Gobind. Say a name like that again and again, and slowly you start to take on its colour. You become like what you keep in mind. Kind people who love the One help, too. Spend time near them and tangled, unkind thoughts drift away. The One is cool, calm and kind, everywhere. Come close and your inner heat cools down: wanting, anger, craving, pride. It is like stepping off a hot street into a shady room. Truth, contentment, kindness, right living and a clean heart get passed along, like a family recipe. Find them in yourself and you start to understand a lot. At the centre, the Rahao: saying Gobind again and again, we become like the One.
Key Vocabulary
gobind... ma-ee: becoming attuned by remembrance
durmat door: the tangled thinking gone
seetal saant da-i-aal: cool, calm, kind
sat santokh da-i-aa Dharam such: the five virtues
manhu pachhaani-aa: recognized within
Themes and Cross-Connections
Becoming what you dwell on, virtue as a passed-on gift, and inner recognition.
For Raag Bilaaval
A calm, kind shabad matching the raag.
Translation Notes
Durmat, often translated "evil-mindedness", appears here as tangled, unkind thinking that drifts away — ego as something to heal.
Hukumnama
Subject: We become like the One we remember Preview: a name said three times, a cool shady calm, and five gifts handed down from the saints.
Today: Gobind, Gobind, Gobind. Say a name like that again and again, and slowly you start to take on its colour. You become like what you keep in mind. Kind people who love the One help, too. Spend time near them and tangled, unkind thoughts drift away. The One is cool, calm and kind, everywhere. Come close and your inner heat cools down: wanting, anger, craving, pride. It is like stepping off a hot street into a shady room. Truth, contentment, kindness, right living and a clean heart get passed along, like a family recipe. Find them in yourself and you start to understand a lot.
What you keep remembering, you become.
For today: When you feel heated today, say the Naam quietly a few times and let it cool you down.
We slowly become what we keep in mind.
The Arc
Gobind, Gobind, Gobind. Say a name like that again and again, and slowly you start to take on its colour. You become like what you keep in mind. Kind people who love the One help, too. Spend time near them and tangled, unkind thoughts drift away. The One is cool, calm and kind, everywhere. Come close and your inner heat cools down: wanting, anger, craving, pride. It is like stepping off a hot street into a shady room. Truth, contentment, kindness, right living and a clean heart get passed along, like a family recipe. Find them in yourself and you start to understand a lot. At the centre, the Rahao: saying Gobind again and again, we become like the One.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Becoming what you dwell on, virtue as a passed-on gift, and inner recognition.
For Raag Bilaaval
A calm, kind shabad matching the raag.
Translation Notes
Durmat, often translated "evil-mindedness", appears here as tangled, unkind thinking that drifts away — ego as something to heal.
Hukumnama
Subject: We become like the One we remember Preview: a name said three times, a cool shady calm, and five gifts handed down from the saints.
Today: Gobind, Gobind, Gobind. Say a name like that again and again, and slowly you start to take on its colour. You become like what you keep in mind. Kind people who love the One help, too. Spend time near them and tangled, unkind thoughts drift away. The One is cool, calm and kind, everywhere. Come close and your inner heat cools down: wanting, anger, craving, pride. It is like stepping off a hot street into a shady room. Truth, contentment, kindness, right living and a clean heart get passed along, like a family recipe. Find them in yourself and you start to understand a lot.
What you keep remembering, you become.
For today: When you feel heated today, say the Naam quietly a few times and let it cool you down.