Your body is a field. What you plant in it is what you harvest.
The Arc
Your body is a field. What you do each day plants something there. Work it with care, and a jewel grows: the Naam. When you want more and more, your mind feels like a dry throat on a hot day. The Naam is cool water. Lean on it the way you lean on a walking stick on a steep trail. Stay near the Guru, and your mind starts to dance. Serve the ones who serve, and words you never had will come. Deep inside, a clear stream is already flowing. A sand castle built to show off falls to one wave. And you? You are a wave that was water all along. At the centre, the Rahao: the Naam is the support of the One's people, and the Guru's grace opens the door.
Key Vocabulary
karam kee dhartee -- the body pictured as a field of action, where what you sow grows
laal javehar -- rubies and jewels, standing for the riches of the Name
anhad shabad -- the unstruck sound, a music heard within, not made by any instrument
nij ghar -- the home within, your own true center
jal tarang -- waves of water, which rise and fall back into the same water
Themes and Cross-Connections
The body as a field to be tended; the Name as breath and support; humility that opens speech; wanting cooled into a dance; and the great closing image of waves returning to water -- everything coming home into the One.
For Raag Bilaaval
Bilaaval's brightness suits a hymn that moves from thirst to a dancing mind and ends in serene homecoming.
Translation Notes
The manmukh (Pauris 4 and 7) is rendered gently as the restless, turned-away mind rather than as a person to look down on; the pride that builds 'sand castles' undoes itself. The soul's dance before the Guru (Pauri 5) is kept as joyful celebration.
Hukumnama
Subject: The Naam is the support we lean on Preview: a field, a ruby, cool water on a burning thirst, a dancing mind, a sand castle and a wave.
Today: Your body is a field. What you do each day plants something there. Work it with care, and a jewel grows: the Naam. When you want more and more, your mind feels like a dry throat on a hot day. The Naam is cool water. Lean on it the way you lean on a walking stick on a steep trail. Stay near the Guru, and your mind starts to dance. Serve the ones who serve, and words you never had will come. Deep inside, a clear stream is already flowing. A sand castle built to show off falls to one wave. And you? You are a wave that was water all along.
Lean on the Naam, and it holds you.
For today: When you feel the pull of wanting more, stop and say the Naam once, slowly.
Your body is a field. What you plant in it is what you harvest.
The Arc
Your body is a field. What you do each day plants something there. Work it with care, and a jewel grows: the Naam. When you want more and more, your mind feels like a dry throat on a hot day. The Naam is cool water. Lean on it the way you lean on a walking stick on a steep trail. Stay near the Guru, and your mind starts to dance. Serve the ones who serve, and words you never had will come. Deep inside, a clear stream is already flowing. A sand castle built to show off falls to one wave. And you? You are a wave that was water all along. At the centre, the Rahao: the Naam is the support of the One's people, and the Guru's grace opens the door.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The body as a field to be tended; the Name as breath and support; humility that opens speech; wanting cooled into a dance; and the great closing image of waves returning to water -- everything coming home into the One.
For Raag Bilaaval
Bilaaval's brightness suits a hymn that moves from thirst to a dancing mind and ends in serene homecoming.
Translation Notes
The manmukh (Pauris 4 and 7) is rendered gently as the restless, turned-away mind rather than as a person to look down on; the pride that builds 'sand castles' undoes itself. The soul's dance before the Guru (Pauri 5) is kept as joyful celebration.
Hukumnama
Subject: The Naam is the support we lean on Preview: a field, a ruby, cool water on a burning thirst, a dancing mind, a sand castle and a wave.
Today: Your body is a field. What you do each day plants something there. Work it with care, and a jewel grows: the Naam. When you want more and more, your mind feels like a dry throat on a hot day. The Naam is cool water. Lean on it the way you lean on a walking stick on a steep trail. Stay near the Guru, and your mind starts to dance. Serve the ones who serve, and words you never had will come. Deep inside, a clear stream is already flowing. A sand castle built to show off falls to one wave. And you? You are a wave that was water all along.
Lean on the Naam, and it holds you.
For today: When you feel the pull of wanting more, stop and say the Naam once, slowly.