Set down pride, become gentle as dust, and ask for the one gift that lasts.
The Arc
Pride makes you puff up and try to look big. Set it down. The Kind One you love is watching over everyone, you too. Let your mind be humble, like the dust on a path. Listen to the words of people who live close to the One. Wisdom and quiet meditation open up there. Sing inside your heart, where no one else needs to hear. Love the One who is kind to the humble. Ask for kindness, and ask for one gift: the Naam. Then let your clinging, your doubts and your pride go. At the centre, the Rahao: set down your pride, because the Kind One sees all, and a humble mind stays close.
Key Vocabulary
ti-aagee-ai gumaan maan — give up pride and conceit
man charan rayn — mind, become the dust of the feet
naanak maagai naam daan — asking for the gift of the Naam
taj moh bharam abhimaan — releasing attachment, doubt, pride
Themes and Cross-Connections
Humility as the doorway, and the Naam as the single gift worth asking for. Everything else is set down so the one thing can be received.
For Raag Kaanraa
Kaanraa's devotion softens the self to dust, the posture in which love is most fully received.
Hukumnama
Subject: Set down your pride and stay humble Preview: dust beneath the feet, guiding words of holy people, lotus feet, one gift asked for, heavy bags set down.
Today: Pride makes you puff up and try to look big. Set it down. The Kind One you love is watching over everyone, you too. Let your mind be humble, like the dust on a path. Listen to the words of people who live close to the One. Wisdom and quiet meditation open up there. Sing inside your heart, where no one else needs to hear. Love the One who is kind to the humble. Ask for kindness, and ask for one gift: the Naam. Then let your clinging, your doubts and your pride go.
Set down your pride, because the Kind One sees all, and a humble mind stays close.
For today: Cheer for someone else's win today, and let your own story wait.
Set down pride, become gentle as dust, and ask for the one gift that lasts.
The Arc
Pride makes you puff up and try to look big. Set it down. The Kind One you love is watching over everyone, you too. Let your mind be humble, like the dust on a path. Listen to the words of people who live close to the One. Wisdom and quiet meditation open up there. Sing inside your heart, where no one else needs to hear. Love the One who is kind to the humble. Ask for kindness, and ask for one gift: the Naam. Then let your clinging, your doubts and your pride go. At the centre, the Rahao: set down your pride, because the Kind One sees all, and a humble mind stays close.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Humility as the doorway, and the Naam as the single gift worth asking for. Everything else is set down so the one thing can be received.
For Raag Kaanraa
Kaanraa's devotion softens the self to dust, the posture in which love is most fully received.
Hukumnama
Subject: Set down your pride and stay humble Preview: dust beneath the feet, guiding words of holy people, lotus feet, one gift asked for, heavy bags set down.
Today: Pride makes you puff up and try to look big. Set it down. The Kind One you love is watching over everyone, you too. Let your mind be humble, like the dust on a path. Listen to the words of people who live close to the One. Wisdom and quiet meditation open up there. Sing inside your heart, where no one else needs to hear. Love the One who is kind to the humble. Ask for kindness, and ask for one gift: the Naam. Then let your clinging, your doubts and your pride go.
Set down your pride, because the Kind One sees all, and a humble mind stays close.
For today: Cheer for someone else's win today, and let your own story wait.