You can live right in your ordinary home and still be free and clear inside.
The Arc
O mind, remember the Naam, and light fills you. Spend time with people who love the One. You can stay home, help with dinner, and still be free and clear inside. Hold the Naam in your heart and kindness pours over you. Day and night your mind blossoms with joy and hope. Love the One with every breath and every bite. Old wrongs burn up in a moment, and the world's tight knots come loose. You may feel small, heavy as a stone. Join the Sangat, and you are carried across. The whole world may seem greater than you. Beside the Guru, your faults are wiped away, and the One draws you close. At the centre, the Rahao: remember the Naam, love the One's people, and stay free inside at home.
Key Vocabulary
vichay girah udaas — free and clear while still in ordinary household life.
an-din anad — day-and-night joy.
man bigsi-aa — the heart blossomed open.
saas... garaas — with every breath and every morsel; love in the ordinary.
kiram — a worm; a humble way of speaking about oneself.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The householder-and-free ideal (girah udaas) is central to the Sikh path: liberation is found in the midst of family and work. The blossoming-heart image links to Kaanraa's flowering devotion.
For Raag Kaanraa
This shabad plants Kaanraa's love firmly in daily life. The yearning to draw nearer is bright and hopeful, lived out in every breath and every bite.
Hukumnama
Subject: You can be free inside, right at home Preview: light in the mind, a heart in bloom, love in every breath, a heavy stone carried across, faults wiped clean
Today: O mind, remember the Naam, and light fills you. Spend time with people who love the One. You can stay home, help with dinner, and still be free and clear inside. Hold the Naam in your heart and kindness pours over you. Day and night your mind blossoms with joy and hope. Love the One with every breath and every bite. Old wrongs burn up in a moment, and the world's tight knots come loose. You may feel small, heavy as a stone. Join the Sangat, and you are carried across. The whole world may seem greater than you. Beside the Guru, your faults are wiped away, and the One draws you close.
Remember the Naam, love the One's people, and stay free inside at home.
For today: Do one ordinary chore today slowly and calmly, with the One in your heart.
You can live right in your ordinary home and still be free and clear inside.
The Arc
O mind, remember the Naam, and light fills you. Spend time with people who love the One. You can stay home, help with dinner, and still be free and clear inside. Hold the Naam in your heart and kindness pours over you. Day and night your mind blossoms with joy and hope. Love the One with every breath and every bite. Old wrongs burn up in a moment, and the world's tight knots come loose. You may feel small, heavy as a stone. Join the Sangat, and you are carried across. The whole world may seem greater than you. Beside the Guru, your faults are wiped away, and the One draws you close. At the centre, the Rahao: remember the Naam, love the One's people, and stay free inside at home.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The householder-and-free ideal (girah udaas) is central to the Sikh path: liberation is found in the midst of family and work. The blossoming-heart image links to Kaanraa's flowering devotion.
For Raag Kaanraa
This shabad plants Kaanraa's love firmly in daily life. The yearning to draw nearer is bright and hopeful, lived out in every breath and every bite.
Hukumnama
Subject: You can be free inside, right at home Preview: light in the mind, a heart in bloom, love in every breath, a heavy stone carried across, faults wiped clean
Today: O mind, remember the Naam, and light fills you. Spend time with people who love the One. You can stay home, help with dinner, and still be free and clear inside. Hold the Naam in your heart and kindness pours over you. Day and night your mind blossoms with joy and hope. Love the One with every breath and every bite. Old wrongs burn up in a moment, and the world's tight knots come loose. You may feel small, heavy as a stone. Join the Sangat, and you are carried across. The whole world may seem greater than you. Beside the Guru, your faults are wiped away, and the One draws you close.
Remember the Naam, love the One's people, and stay free inside at home.
For today: Do one ordinary chore today slowly and calmly, with the One in your heart.