Among holy people a tired heart greens the way rain greens a dry field.
The Arc
Being near people who love the One makes your mind turn green, like a field after rain. You feel so thankful you would give them everything. Together with them, you are carried across water that looked too wide. Ask for the humility to sit at their feet and learn. Anyone can be lifted up there. Your mind runs in a hundred directions. In their company it gathers, like fish drawn in by a net. Ego and wrongdoing wash out, the way soap cleans a shirt. What was written for you from the start brings you to the Guru. There you find the One who ends all lack and pain. The Naam carries you through. At the centre, the Rahao: meeting holy people, your mind blossoms, and the Sangat carries you across.
Key Vocabulary
saaDh janaaN — holy people, those tuned to the One; the shabad's beating heart.
hari-aa — greened, gone alive; the heart turning like a watered field.
ha-umai — ego, the felt sense of being a separate self; here a stain washed clean, as cloth in soap.
durat — wrongdoing.
patit — the fallen, people who have gone wrong; here they are lifted up.
paar utri-aa — ferried across the wide water to the far shore.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The soap-and-cloth and fisherman's-net images give the Sangat a homely, physical feeling. The green-heart image (hari-aa) links Kaanraa's devotion to the rain-and-growth imagery that runs through the nearby rain raags. patit uDhri-aa (the fallen are lifted) puts rescue first.
For Raag Kaanraa
This is the doorway into Raag Kaanraa, the raag of deep devotional love. It sets the key: nearness. Longing here is answered by the warmth of the Sangat and the greening of the heart.
Hukumnama
Subject: Your mind blossoms among holy people Preview: a heart turning green, bowing at holy feet, a fisherman's net, soap and cloth, writing on the forehead
Today: Being near people who love the One makes your mind turn green, like a field after rain. You feel so thankful you would give them everything. Together with them, you are carried across water that looked too wide. Ask for the humility to sit at their feet and learn. Anyone can be lifted up there. Your mind runs in a hundred directions. In their company it gathers, like fish drawn in by a net. Ego and wrongdoing wash out, the way soap cleans a shirt. What was written for you from the start brings you to the Guru. There you find the One who ends all lack and pain. The Naam carries you through.
Among holy people your mind blossoms, and the Sangat carries you across.
For today: Spend time today with someone who helps you feel calm and close to the One.
Among holy people a tired heart greens the way rain greens a dry field.
The Arc
Being near people who love the One makes your mind turn green, like a field after rain. You feel so thankful you would give them everything. Together with them, you are carried across water that looked too wide. Ask for the humility to sit at their feet and learn. Anyone can be lifted up there. Your mind runs in a hundred directions. In their company it gathers, like fish drawn in by a net. Ego and wrongdoing wash out, the way soap cleans a shirt. What was written for you from the start brings you to the Guru. There you find the One who ends all lack and pain. The Naam carries you through. At the centre, the Rahao: meeting holy people, your mind blossoms, and the Sangat carries you across.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The soap-and-cloth and fisherman's-net images give the Sangat a homely, physical feeling. The green-heart image (hari-aa) links Kaanraa's devotion to the rain-and-growth imagery that runs through the nearby rain raags. patit uDhri-aa (the fallen are lifted) puts rescue first.
For Raag Kaanraa
This is the doorway into Raag Kaanraa, the raag of deep devotional love. It sets the key: nearness. Longing here is answered by the warmth of the Sangat and the greening of the heart.
Hukumnama
Subject: Your mind blossoms among holy people Preview: a heart turning green, bowing at holy feet, a fisherman's net, soap and cloth, writing on the forehead
Today: Being near people who love the One makes your mind turn green, like a field after rain. You feel so thankful you would give them everything. Together with them, you are carried across water that looked too wide. Ask for the humility to sit at their feet and learn. Anyone can be lifted up there. Your mind runs in a hundred directions. In their company it gathers, like fish drawn in by a net. Ego and wrongdoing wash out, the way soap cleans a shirt. What was written for you from the start brings you to the Guru. There you find the One who ends all lack and pain. The Naam carries you through.
Among holy people your mind blossoms, and the Sangat carries you across.
For today: Spend time today with someone who helps you feel calm and close to the One.