Remember the One — this alone is the work that helps you.
The Arc
Remember the One, and keep remembering. That is the work that helps you. Loosen your grip on the world's glitter and rest in the One. Its fun is sweet, and it passes like a dream. Money you own is like money in a dream. Why get proud of it? Even the biggest kingdoms are walls of sand, and the tide comes in. Your body will not last forever. Yesterday slipped away moment by moment. Today is slipping away the same way. Spend some of it with the One. At the centre, the Rahao: remember the One, because that alone will help you.
Key Vocabulary
Raam simar — keep the One in mind. Maa-i-aa — the passing, glittering surface of things, not evil but not lasting. Mithi-aa / jhootho — unreal, dreamlike. Baaroo kee bheet — a wall of sand. Chhin chhin — moment by moment. Gaat — the body.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Impermanence as a teacher of tenderness runs through all four shabads of this raag; the sand-wall and the melting moment are its gentlest images. The rahau's raam simar points to the Naam — the living presence of the One held in awareness. The Mool Mantar here grounds the smallest raag in the same seed-statement that opens the whole Guru Granth Sahib.
For Raag Jaijaavantee
Jaijaavantee is the smallest raag, four hymns all by the Ninth Master. As its opener, this shabad sets the raag's whole mood: brief life, steady remembrance, the undying One beneath the passing show.
Hukumnama
Subject: Remembering the One is what helps you Preview: a fortune in a dream, a wall of sand, yesterday slipping away, today going the same way.
Today: Remember the One, and keep remembering. That is the work that helps you. Loosen your grip on the world's glitter and rest in the One. Its fun is sweet, and it passes like a dream. Money you own is like money in a dream. Why get proud of it? Even the biggest kingdoms are walls of sand, and the tide comes in. Your body will not last forever. Yesterday slipped away moment by moment. Today is slipping away the same way. Spend some of it with the One.
Remember the One, because that alone will help you.
For today: Take one quiet minute today, with no screen, to remember the One.
Remember the One — this alone is the work that helps you.
The Arc
Remember the One, and keep remembering. That is the work that helps you. Loosen your grip on the world's glitter and rest in the One. Its fun is sweet, and it passes like a dream. Money you own is like money in a dream. Why get proud of it? Even the biggest kingdoms are walls of sand, and the tide comes in. Your body will not last forever. Yesterday slipped away moment by moment. Today is slipping away the same way. Spend some of it with the One. At the centre, the Rahao: remember the One, because that alone will help you.
Key Vocabulary
Raam simar — keep the One in mind. Maa-i-aa — the passing, glittering surface of things, not evil but not lasting. Mithi-aa / jhootho — unreal, dreamlike. Baaroo kee bheet — a wall of sand. Chhin chhin — moment by moment. Gaat — the body.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Impermanence as a teacher of tenderness runs through all four shabads of this raag; the sand-wall and the melting moment are its gentlest images. The rahau's raam simar points to the Naam — the living presence of the One held in awareness. The Mool Mantar here grounds the smallest raag in the same seed-statement that opens the whole Guru Granth Sahib.
For Raag Jaijaavantee
Jaijaavantee is the smallest raag, four hymns all by the Ninth Master. As its opener, this shabad sets the raag's whole mood: brief life, steady remembrance, the undying One beneath the passing show.
Hukumnama
Subject: Remembering the One is what helps you Preview: a fortune in a dream, a wall of sand, yesterday slipping away, today going the same way.
Today: Remember the One, and keep remembering. That is the work that helps you. Loosen your grip on the world's glitter and rest in the One. Its fun is sweet, and it passes like a dream. Money you own is like money in a dream. Why get proud of it? Even the biggest kingdoms are walls of sand, and the tide comes in. Your body will not last forever. Yesterday slipped away moment by moment. Today is slipping away the same way. Spend some of it with the One.
Remember the One, because that alone will help you.
For today: Take one quiet minute today, with no screen, to remember the One.