Raag Todee, Shabad 1, Mehl 4 (Guru Ram Das) — bridge-shabad filed at the end of Jaitsree
"Without the Lord, my mind cannot survive... The Lord seems so very sweet to my heart, mind and body."
A Bridge Across the Boundary
Although filed at the end of Raag Jaitsree, this shabad opens Raag Todee — it carries its own full Mool Mantar (the complete "Ik Onkar... Gurprasad" invocation) and the header "Raag Todee, Chau-Padas, Fourth Mehl, First House." The Guru Granth Sahib occasionally places a new raag's opening shabad at the tail of the previous section as a bridge (cf. B00C1023, the Goojaree opener filed at the end of Aasaa; B00C1155, the Wadahans opener at the end of Bihaagraa). The Todee raag proper continues in section 13-Raag-Todee.
The Arc
Guru Ram Das's opening Todee shabad, in the register that ran through his Jaitsree. "Without the One my mind cannot survive" — fish-out-of-water viraha (rahau); longing becoming sight, the Name as the Path (v.1); the One found through love, sweet in heart/mind/body (v.2); the counter-road of the greed-attached manmukh (v.3); the discerning intellect and the Name received from the Guru (v.4).
Har Ras / "so very sweet" — the taste of the One (see philosophy.md).
bibek buddh / discriminating intellect — the discernment the Guru gives; the faculty all of Jaitsree cultivated.
Themes and Cross-Connections
"Cannot survive without the One" links to Jaitsree's fish/rainbird similes (B00C1518, 1525, Vaar P33–35). Found-through-love and the sweetness link to Har Ras and the Mehl 4 Jaitsree block. The discerning intellect links to Jaitsree's whole project of telling the true friend/wealth/love from the false (B00C1509). Manmukh-as-direction links to B00C1498 and philosophy.md.
For Raag Jaitsree / Raag Todee
Carries Jaitsree's teaching unbroken across the boundary into Todee: the longing that cannot live without the One, the Name as the road, the sweetness found through love, and — its gift — the discerning mind that can finally tell the lasting from the passing. The teaching flows on.
"Without the Lord, my mind cannot survive... The Lord seems so very sweet to my heart, mind and body."
A Bridge Across the Boundary
Although filed at the end of Raag Jaitsree, this shabad opens Raag Todee — it carries its own full Mool Mantar (the complete "Ik Onkar... Gurprasad" invocation) and the header "Raag Todee, Chau-Padas, Fourth Mehl, First House." The Guru Granth Sahib occasionally places a new raag's opening shabad at the tail of the previous section as a bridge (cf. B00C1023, the Goojaree opener filed at the end of Aasaa; B00C1155, the Wadahans opener at the end of Bihaagraa). The Todee raag proper continues in section 13-Raag-Todee.
The Arc
Guru Ram Das's opening Todee shabad, in the register that ran through his Jaitsree. "Without the One my mind cannot survive" — fish-out-of-water viraha (rahau); longing becoming sight, the Name as the Path (v.1); the One found through love, sweet in heart/mind/body (v.2); the counter-road of the greed-attached manmukh (v.3); the discerning intellect and the Name received from the Guru (v.4).
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
"Cannot survive without the One" links to Jaitsree's fish/rainbird similes (B00C1518, 1525, Vaar P33–35). Found-through-love and the sweetness link to Har Ras and the Mehl 4 Jaitsree block. The discerning intellect links to Jaitsree's whole project of telling the true friend/wealth/love from the false (B00C1509). Manmukh-as-direction links to B00C1498 and philosophy.md.
For Raag Jaitsree / Raag Todee
Carries Jaitsree's teaching unbroken across the boundary into Todee: the longing that cannot live without the One, the Name as the road, the sweetness found through love, and — its gift — the discerning mind that can finally tell the lasting from the passing. The teaching flows on.