If one voice is not enough for such thanks, let it become a hundred thousand.
The Arc
Sing the praises of the One who holds the whole world. Imagine your one voice turning into two hundred thousand voices. You would use every one of them to remember the One and sing the Guru's word. Ask the One to be kind to you. Ask to be useful, to serve. Keep remembering, again and again. The people who remember the One stand tall. You feel like giving yourself to them over and over. The One is greater than great and does what the One pleases. Through the Guru's teaching, you drink sweet nectar. Blessed, blessed is the Guru. At the centre, the Rahao: sing the One's praises as if you had two hundred thousand voices.
Key Vocabulary
aykaa jeeh keechai lakh bees — let one tongue become 200,000; gratitude overflowing.
The wish for many tongues is a recurring Gurbani figure for praise that outruns a single voice. amrit (nectar) links to the wider imagery of the Naam as sweet, healing drink.
For Raag Kaanraa
The partaal keeps Kaanraa's devotion at a joyful pitch: longing overflows into a wish for endless voices, answered by the free sweetness of the Naam.
Hukumnama
Subject: Sing the One's praises with every voice Preview: one tongue turned into two hundred thousand, a servant's prayer, sweet nectar, five blessings for the Guru
Today: Sing the praises of the One who holds the whole world. Imagine your one voice turning into two hundred thousand voices. You would use every one of them to remember the One and sing the Guru's word. Ask the One to be kind to you. Ask to be useful, to serve. Keep remembering, again and again. The people who remember the One stand tall. You feel like giving yourself to them over and over. The One is greater than great and does what the One pleases. Through the Guru's teaching, you drink sweet nectar. Blessed, blessed is the Guru.
Sing the One's praises as if you had two hundred thousand voices.
For today: Say thank you out loud today for one good thing, with your whole heart.
If one voice is not enough for such thanks, let it become a hundred thousand.
The Arc
Sing the praises of the One who holds the whole world. Imagine your one voice turning into two hundred thousand voices. You would use every one of them to remember the One and sing the Guru's word. Ask the One to be kind to you. Ask to be useful, to serve. Keep remembering, again and again. The people who remember the One stand tall. You feel like giving yourself to them over and over. The One is greater than great and does what the One pleases. Through the Guru's teaching, you drink sweet nectar. Blessed, blessed is the Guru. At the centre, the Rahao: sing the One's praises as if you had two hundred thousand voices.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The wish for many tongues is a recurring Gurbani figure for praise that outruns a single voice. amrit (nectar) links to the wider imagery of the Naam as sweet, healing drink.
For Raag Kaanraa
The partaal keeps Kaanraa's devotion at a joyful pitch: longing overflows into a wish for endless voices, answered by the free sweetness of the Naam.
Hukumnama
Subject: Sing the One's praises with every voice Preview: one tongue turned into two hundred thousand, a servant's prayer, sweet nectar, five blessings for the Guru
Today: Sing the praises of the One who holds the whole world. Imagine your one voice turning into two hundred thousand voices. You would use every one of them to remember the One and sing the Guru's word. Ask the One to be kind to you. Ask to be useful, to serve. Keep remembering, again and again. The people who remember the One stand tall. You feel like giving yourself to them over and over. The One is greater than great and does what the One pleases. Through the Guru's teaching, you drink sweet nectar. Blessed, blessed is the Guru.
Sing the One's praises as if you had two hundred thousand voices.
For today: Say thank you out loud today for one good thing, with your whole heart.