One kind look lifts the fog, and the small light folds back into the great Light — whole at last.
The Arc
Some days you feel lucky for no clear reason. Inside, a music is playing that no hand is striking. Sorrow and fear have a hard time reaching that place. Call your friends and sing together; joy grows bigger when it is shared. Then comes a moment of pure wonder. The One takes your hand, and the old fog in your thinking lifts, like a clear morning after a storm. Your small light joins the great Light, the way a sunbeam folds back into the sun. You stay you, and you become whole. At the centre, the opening refrain: by blessed destiny, the One I love is mine.
Key Vocabulary
anhad — the unstruck inner music.
bisman bisam — utterly wonder-struck; vismaad.
darisat Dhaaree — the Glance of Grace.
jotee jot ralee — light merging in Light.
aap kartaa aap bhugtaa — the One as both Maker and Enjoyer.
Themes and Cross-Connections
An inner refuge safe from sorrow; communal devotion as joy; grace as one transforming look; and oneness (Ik Onkar) — the small self folding into the whole.
For Raag Bilaaval
The raag's brightness peaks here in wonder — vismaad, the awe at the very heart of Waheguru.
Translation Notes
The noose of Death (jam kee faasee) is read as being freed from what bound me with fear; rog sog... janam maran (P0) becomes a place sorrow and fear do not reach. Bhagat thag-uree (the drug of devotion) becomes the happy medicine of devotion.
Hukumnama
Subject: By great good fortune, I found the One Preview: music no hand ever struck, friends singing together, a hand that holds yours, sunbeams back in the sun.
Today: Some days you feel lucky for no clear reason. Inside, a music is playing that no hand is striking. Sorrow and fear have a hard time reaching that place. Call your friends and sing together; joy grows bigger when it is shared. Then comes a moment of pure wonder. The One takes your hand, and the old fog in your thinking lifts, like a clear morning after a storm. Your small light joins the great Light, the way a sunbeam folds back into the sun. You stay you, and you become whole.
By great good fortune, the One is found.
For today: Sing a shabad with a friend today, and listen for the music it leaves inside you.
One kind look lifts the fog, and the small light folds back into the great Light — whole at last.
The Arc
Some days you feel lucky for no clear reason. Inside, a music is playing that no hand is striking. Sorrow and fear have a hard time reaching that place. Call your friends and sing together; joy grows bigger when it is shared. Then comes a moment of pure wonder. The One takes your hand, and the old fog in your thinking lifts, like a clear morning after a storm. Your small light joins the great Light, the way a sunbeam folds back into the sun. You stay you, and you become whole. At the centre, the opening refrain: by blessed destiny, the One I love is mine.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
An inner refuge safe from sorrow; communal devotion as joy; grace as one transforming look; and oneness (Ik Onkar) — the small self folding into the whole.
For Raag Bilaaval
The raag's brightness peaks here in wonder — vismaad, the awe at the very heart of Waheguru.
Translation Notes
The noose of Death (jam kee faasee) is read as being freed from what bound me with fear; rog sog... janam maran (P0) becomes a place sorrow and fear do not reach. Bhagat thag-uree (the drug of devotion) becomes the happy medicine of devotion.
Hukumnama
Subject: By great good fortune, I found the One Preview: music no hand ever struck, friends singing together, a hand that holds yours, sunbeams back in the sun.
Today: Some days you feel lucky for no clear reason. Inside, a music is playing that no hand is striking. Sorrow and fear have a hard time reaching that place. Call your friends and sing together; joy grows bigger when it is shared. Then comes a moment of pure wonder. The One takes your hand, and the old fog in your thinking lifts, like a clear morning after a storm. Your small light joins the great Light, the way a sunbeam folds back into the sun. You stay you, and you become whole.
By great good fortune, the One is found.
For today: Sing a shabad with a friend today, and listen for the music it leaves inside you.