Life melts like a snowflake — so hold the Name while it is here.
The Arc
Remember the One, and remember again. Your life is slipping by. Maybe you have heard this a hundred times and still let it slide. Your body is like a hailstone in a warm hand. It melts fast. So drop the doubts that keep you stuck, and say the Naam of the One. At the very end, that is what goes with you. Let go of the habits that poison your heart, and keep praise of the One there instead. This chance is passing right now. At the centre, the Rahao: remember the One now, because your life is slipping away.
Key Vocabulary
Raam bhaj — keep the One in mind. Gavaar — literally "fool," here loving urgency rather than insult. Oray — hailstone. Bharam — doubt. Ant baar — the last moment. Bikhi-aa bikh — the poison of harmful habits. A-osar — the open window of opportunity.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The Naam as what goes with you past death, so the end becomes a homecoming. Replacement over repression — crowding out poison with praise rather than white-knuckling against it — echoes the whole tradition's naam simran. The melting-body image links directly to the sand-wall of the opener.
For Raag Jaijaavantee
The second of four hymns; the hailstone-melting image is the raag's signature picture of a swift, tender life.
Hukumnama
Subject: Remember the One while life slips by Preview: a hailstone melting in a hand, a call repeated again and again, poison set aside, a chance slipping away.
Today: Remember the One, and remember again. Your life is slipping by. Maybe you have heard this a hundred times and still let it slide. Your body is like a hailstone in a warm hand. It melts fast. So drop the doubts that keep you stuck, and say the Naam of the One. At the very end, that is what goes with you. Let go of the habits that poison your heart, and keep praise of the One there instead. This chance is passing right now.
Remember the One now, because your life is slipping away.
For today: Pick one habit that drags you down and swap it for a minute of thanks today.
Life melts like a snowflake — so hold the Name while it is here.
The Arc
Remember the One, and remember again. Your life is slipping by. Maybe you have heard this a hundred times and still let it slide. Your body is like a hailstone in a warm hand. It melts fast. So drop the doubts that keep you stuck, and say the Naam of the One. At the very end, that is what goes with you. Let go of the habits that poison your heart, and keep praise of the One there instead. This chance is passing right now. At the centre, the Rahao: remember the One now, because your life is slipping away.
Key Vocabulary
Raam bhaj — keep the One in mind. Gavaar — literally "fool," here loving urgency rather than insult. Oray — hailstone. Bharam — doubt. Ant baar — the last moment. Bikhi-aa bikh — the poison of harmful habits. A-osar — the open window of opportunity.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The Naam as what goes with you past death, so the end becomes a homecoming. Replacement over repression — crowding out poison with praise rather than white-knuckling against it — echoes the whole tradition's naam simran. The melting-body image links directly to the sand-wall of the opener.
For Raag Jaijaavantee
The second of four hymns; the hailstone-melting image is the raag's signature picture of a swift, tender life.
Hukumnama
Subject: Remember the One while life slips by Preview: a hailstone melting in a hand, a call repeated again and again, poison set aside, a chance slipping away.
Today: Remember the One, and remember again. Your life is slipping by. Maybe you have heard this a hundred times and still let it slide. Your body is like a hailstone in a warm hand. It melts fast. So drop the doubts that keep you stuck, and say the Naam of the One. At the very end, that is what goes with you. Let go of the habits that poison your heart, and keep praise of the One there instead. This chance is passing right now.
Remember the One now, because your life is slipping away.
For today: Pick one habit that drags you down and swap it for a minute of thanks today.