The heart that has found the One stops wandering door to door to be filled.
The Arc
Some people chase riches and amazing powers. The whole world runs around hoping for money that lasts a couple of days. Whoever has found the One stops knocking on door after door. Think of a drink of water so deep you are never thirsty again. That is the water of the One. By the Guru's grace you can let go of wanting, even with hopes all around you, and start seeing Truth everywhere. Taste the Naam, and you change all the way through, like plain metal turning into gold. Doubt goes, and you get across. At the centre, the Rahao: whoever has found the One no longer wanders from door to door.
Key Vocabulary
Ridh sidh riches and miraculous powers; even these leave the heart empty without the One
Bhaveh na baarai baar no longer wandering from door to door (the Rahau)
Raam udak the water of the One that ends all thirst
Aasaa tay bha-i-aa niraas free of grasping-hope in the very midst of hope
Kanchan bha-i-aa becoming gold; the transformation grace works
Themes and Cross-Connections
Two recurring currents meet here: the water-and-thirst image (fullness that does not run out) and the gold-alchemy image (a person changed all the way through). Grace is received, not earned ('gur parsaad'), and the fruit of detachment is not coldness but seeing the One everywhere. The impermanent world ('jhoothaa jag') is set against what lasts, sach, what is true.
For Raag Maaroo
Against Maaroo's backdrop of loss and endings, this shabad offers what does not end: a thirst quenched for good, a self turned to gold, a crossing already underway.
Translation Notes
Pauri 2: jhoothaa jag, the false world: the world of things that fade, set against what lasts.
Pauri 0: mai bolat hee bad laaj, "I feel shy even to speak": words fall short.
Hukumnama
Subject: Find the One, and you stop wandering Preview: riches and powers, door after door, a drink of water that ends thirst, and plain metal turned to gold.
Today: Some people chase riches and amazing powers. The whole world runs around hoping for money that lasts a couple of days. Whoever has found the One stops knocking on door after door. Think of a drink of water so deep you are never thirsty again. That is the water of the One. By the Guru's grace you can let go of wanting, even with hopes all around you, and start seeing Truth everywhere. Taste the Naam, and you change all the way through, like plain metal turning into gold. Doubt goes, and you get across.
Find the One, and the wandering from door to door ends.
For today: When you catch yourself wanting the next new thing, pause and say the Naam once, slowly.
The heart that has found the One stops wandering door to door to be filled.
The Arc
Some people chase riches and amazing powers. The whole world runs around hoping for money that lasts a couple of days. Whoever has found the One stops knocking on door after door. Think of a drink of water so deep you are never thirsty again. That is the water of the One. By the Guru's grace you can let go of wanting, even with hopes all around you, and start seeing Truth everywhere. Taste the Naam, and you change all the way through, like plain metal turning into gold. Doubt goes, and you get across. At the centre, the Rahao: whoever has found the One no longer wanders from door to door.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Two recurring currents meet here: the water-and-thirst image (fullness that does not run out) and the gold-alchemy image (a person changed all the way through). Grace is received, not earned ('gur parsaad'), and the fruit of detachment is not coldness but seeing the One everywhere. The impermanent world ('jhoothaa jag') is set against what lasts, sach, what is true.
For Raag Maaroo
Against Maaroo's backdrop of loss and endings, this shabad offers what does not end: a thirst quenched for good, a self turned to gold, a crossing already underway.
Translation Notes
Hukumnama
Subject: Find the One, and you stop wandering Preview: riches and powers, door after door, a drink of water that ends thirst, and plain metal turned to gold.
Today: Some people chase riches and amazing powers. The whole world runs around hoping for money that lasts a couple of days. Whoever has found the One stops knocking on door after door. Think of a drink of water so deep you are never thirsty again. That is the water of the One. By the Guru's grace you can let go of wanting, even with hopes all around you, and start seeing Truth everywhere. Taste the Naam, and you change all the way through, like plain metal turning into gold. Doubt goes, and you get across.
Find the One, and the wandering from door to door ends.
For today: When you catch yourself wanting the next new thing, pause and say the Naam once, slowly.