The song lifts you when what it sings about lives in your heart.
The Arc
Some people love the One so much that devotion is just who they are. Body and mind melt into the One. The One draws them close and makes them one. Anyone can sing the songs. The ones lifted across have the One living in their hearts. Think of a dinner table. The person serving sees every dish. The one who eats is the one who gets full. People put on all kinds of costumes. In the end, everyone is seen just as they are. Talking, and getting talked about, only tangles you up. Living the truth is the best thing of all. At the centre, the Rahao: devotion comes naturally to those who love the One, and the One draws them close.
Key Vocabulary
bhagat — devotion — here, second nature
uDhray — carried across, lifted
bhaykh-Dhaaree — one who wears a costume or outward disguise of piety
sach karnee — truthful living, action — the essence
Themes and Cross-Connections
The gap between outward show and inward truth is central; the table image (only the eater is satisfied) is one of Gurbani's warmest pictures of why direct experience nourishes. sach karnee saar echoes Guru Nanak's 'higher than truth is truthful living.'
For Raag Kaanraa
Kaanraa's love is inward here: devotion lived from the inside.
Hukumnama
Subject: Devotion comes naturally to those who love Preview: a singer and her song, a table set with food, a closet of costumes, a tangle of talk.
Today: Some people love the One so much that devotion is just who they are. Body and mind melt into the One. The One draws them close and makes them one. Anyone can sing the songs. The ones lifted across have the One living in their hearts. Think of a dinner table. The person serving sees every dish. The one who eats is the one who gets full. People put on all kinds of costumes. In the end, everyone is seen just as they are. Talking, and getting talked about, only tangles you up. Living the truth is the best thing of all.
Devotion comes naturally to those who love the One, and the One draws them close.
For today: Do one kind thing today without telling anyone about it.
The song lifts you when what it sings about lives in your heart.
The Arc
Some people love the One so much that devotion is just who they are. Body and mind melt into the One. The One draws them close and makes them one. Anyone can sing the songs. The ones lifted across have the One living in their hearts. Think of a dinner table. The person serving sees every dish. The one who eats is the one who gets full. People put on all kinds of costumes. In the end, everyone is seen just as they are. Talking, and getting talked about, only tangles you up. Living the truth is the best thing of all. At the centre, the Rahao: devotion comes naturally to those who love the One, and the One draws them close.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The gap between outward show and inward truth is central; the table image (only the eater is satisfied) is one of Gurbani's warmest pictures of why direct experience nourishes. sach karnee saar echoes Guru Nanak's 'higher than truth is truthful living.'
For Raag Kaanraa
Kaanraa's love is inward here: devotion lived from the inside.
Hukumnama
Subject: Devotion comes naturally to those who love Preview: a singer and her song, a table set with food, a closet of costumes, a tangle of talk.
Today: Some people love the One so much that devotion is just who they are. Body and mind melt into the One. The One draws them close and makes them one. Anyone can sing the songs. The ones lifted across have the One living in their hearts. Think of a dinner table. The person serving sees every dish. The one who eats is the one who gets full. People put on all kinds of costumes. In the end, everyone is seen just as they are. Talking, and getting talked about, only tangles you up. Living the truth is the best thing of all.
Devotion comes naturally to those who love the One, and the One draws them close.
For today: Do one kind thing today without telling anyone about it.