Raag Goojaree, Ashtapadee, First Mehl (Guru Nanak)
From five thieves in the body-village to nectar in a cosmos-wide lotus.
The Arc
The body is a village housing five thieves who keep stealing despite warning; freedom is guarding the treasure (P0). The rosary is relocated to the heart (P1). The inverted cosmic tree, reached by wakeful love not climbing (P2), is brought home to one's own courtyard (P3). Nanak begs seekers to drop Maya's traps (P4); defines the true teacher as a physician who knows the illness, living free amid household tangles (P5); lists the passions set down and the imperishable held (P6); names wisdom as gift and wakefulness as the tasted honey (P7); and closes in a cosmos-wide lotus, poison exchanged for nectar (P8).
Key Vocabulary
five thieves — craving, anger, greed, attachment, pride, living in the body-village (P0).
inverted tree — roots up, branches down; reality rooted in the unseen (P2).
kalpa-taru / Elysian tree — the wish-granting tree in one's own courtyard (P3).
physician who knows the illness — the true Guru; householder detachment (P5).
lotus — the deep, cosmos-connected awakened heart (P8).
Themes and Cross-Connections
The five-thieves-in-the-body image (P0) is a Nanak signature (compare Gauree B00C258). The inner rosary (P1) and inner tree (P2–P3) continue the raag's relocation of the sacred (B00C1030). The householder-physician (P5) restates the lotus-in-water ideal (B00C1043 P4). "Set down the passions, hold the imperishable" (P6) is the raag's method of replacement, not mere suppression.
For Raag Goojaree
Nanak's Ashtapadee gathers the raag's inner turn into one sustained meditation: guard your treasure, carry your rosary in your heart, and find the whole cosmos flowering in the courtyard of your own awakened life.
From five thieves in the body-village to nectar in a cosmos-wide lotus.
The Arc
The body is a village housing five thieves who keep stealing despite warning; freedom is guarding the treasure (P0). The rosary is relocated to the heart (P1). The inverted cosmic tree, reached by wakeful love not climbing (P2), is brought home to one's own courtyard (P3). Nanak begs seekers to drop Maya's traps (P4); defines the true teacher as a physician who knows the illness, living free amid household tangles (P5); lists the passions set down and the imperishable held (P6); names wisdom as gift and wakefulness as the tasted honey (P7); and closes in a cosmos-wide lotus, poison exchanged for nectar (P8).
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The five-thieves-in-the-body image (P0) is a Nanak signature (compare Gauree B00C258). The inner rosary (P1) and inner tree (P2–P3) continue the raag's relocation of the sacred (B00C1030). The householder-physician (P5) restates the lotus-in-water ideal (B00C1043 P4). "Set down the passions, hold the imperishable" (P6) is the raag's method of replacement, not mere suppression.
For Raag Goojaree
Nanak's Ashtapadee gathers the raag's inner turn into one sustained meditation: guard your treasure, carry your rosary in your heart, and find the whole cosmos flowering in the courtyard of your own awakened life.