Keep your heart clean, stay untouched like fire, and take the Name like medicine.
The Arc
You can hide things from people. You cannot hide them from the One, who is always with you. So ask yourself, why reach into someone else's life for what is theirs? What you do counts, and someone fair is keeping score. Harmful habits hang on you like a stone. Gossip is a bundle you carry on your own head. Try swimming with both, and you sink. Wanting, anger, greed and clinging turn your eyes away from the Truth. Look at the sun, the moon, a flame. They touch everything and stay clean. A heart awake to the One does too. The Guru gives the Naam like medicine. At the centre, the Rahao: why go into other people's homes? A second pause follows it: remember the One, let the grabbing self go still, and you cross over.
Key Vocabulary
gupat - in secret, hidden
par garihi - others' homes; reaching for what is not yours
alipaa-ay - untouched, unstained
avkhadh naam - the Naam as medicine; dharam raa-ay - the judge of what is right
Themes and Cross-Connections
Integrity and a clean heart; harm and slander as self-carried weight; purity that nothing can stain; the Name as medicine (Maaroo's healing note).
For Raag Maaroo
The raag's severity is turned toward healing - the closing image is not punishment but medicine.
Hukumnama
Subject: Keep away from what belongs to others Preview: red-hot pillars, a stone round the neck, a bundle of gossip, sun, moon and fire, and a medicine.
Today: You can hide things from people. You cannot hide them from the One, who is always with you. So ask yourself, why reach into someone else's life for what is theirs? What you do counts, and someone fair is keeping score. Harmful habits hang on you like a stone. Gossip is a bundle you carry on your own head. Try swimming with both, and you sink. Wanting, anger, greed and clinging turn your eyes away from the Truth. Look at the sun, the moon, a flame. They touch everything and stay clean. A heart awake to the One does too. The Guru gives the Naam like medicine.
Keep away from what belongs to others.
For today: When gossip starts today, set it down and say something kind instead.
Keep your heart clean, stay untouched like fire, and take the Name like medicine.
The Arc
You can hide things from people. You cannot hide them from the One, who is always with you. So ask yourself, why reach into someone else's life for what is theirs? What you do counts, and someone fair is keeping score. Harmful habits hang on you like a stone. Gossip is a bundle you carry on your own head. Try swimming with both, and you sink. Wanting, anger, greed and clinging turn your eyes away from the Truth. Look at the sun, the moon, a flame. They touch everything and stay clean. A heart awake to the One does too. The Guru gives the Naam like medicine. At the centre, the Rahao: why go into other people's homes? A second pause follows it: remember the One, let the grabbing self go still, and you cross over.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Integrity and a clean heart; harm and slander as self-carried weight; purity that nothing can stain; the Name as medicine (Maaroo's healing note).
For Raag Maaroo
The raag's severity is turned toward healing - the closing image is not punishment but medicine.
Hukumnama
Subject: Keep away from what belongs to others Preview: red-hot pillars, a stone round the neck, a bundle of gossip, sun, moon and fire, and a medicine.
Today: You can hide things from people. You cannot hide them from the One, who is always with you. So ask yourself, why reach into someone else's life for what is theirs? What you do counts, and someone fair is keeping score. Harmful habits hang on you like a stone. Gossip is a bundle you carry on your own head. Try swimming with both, and you sink. Wanting, anger, greed and clinging turn your eyes away from the Truth. Look at the sun, the moon, a flame. They touch everything and stay clean. A heart awake to the One does too. The Guru gives the Naam like medicine.
Keep away from what belongs to others.
For today: When gossip starts today, set it down and say something kind instead.