Set down the clever tricks; listen, and fear falls away.
The Arc
You know the tiring feeling of always trying to look clever. Have an answer ready, win the argument, look cool. You can put all of that down. Meet people who love the One, and let pride go. Then use your ears. Listen to the Naam, in kirtan, in a quiet moment, in your own voice. Old mistakes wash away like dust in the rain. Fears lose their grip, even the big one about dying. Pain and worry stop running the show. Peace finds a place to sit down inside you. Keeping the One near is the wisest thing you can know. At the centre, the Rahao: ears open to the Naam, old mistakes washed away, and nothing left to fear.
Key Vocabulary
Du-Padas — two-stanza shabads
Sun har naam — listen to the Name (suniai — deep listening)
Tat giaan — the essence of wisdom
Themes and Cross-Connections
Suniai — deep listening — is the doorway here; what is listened to (the Name) is also what quiets fear. The clever-tricks-to-simplicity movement recurs across this Du-Pada set.
For Raag Maaroo
Fear is disarmed not by force but by listening — a gentle answer in the raag of dread.
Hukumnama
Subject: Listen to the Naam, and fear falls away Preview: clever schemes set down, a tongue saying Raam, Raam, listening ears, and a quiet place to rest.
Today: You know the tiring feeling of always trying to look clever. Have an answer ready, win the argument, look cool. You can put all of that down. Meet people who love the One, and let pride go. Then use your ears. Listen to the Naam, in kirtan, in a quiet moment, in your own voice. Old mistakes wash away like dust in the rain. Fears lose their grip, even the big one about dying. Pain and worry stop running the show. Peace finds a place to sit down inside you. Keeping the One near is the wisest thing you can know.
Listen to the Naam, and fear falls away.
For today: Listen to one shabad today with your full attention, phone face down.
Set down the clever tricks; listen, and fear falls away.
The Arc
You know the tiring feeling of always trying to look clever. Have an answer ready, win the argument, look cool. You can put all of that down. Meet people who love the One, and let pride go. Then use your ears. Listen to the Naam, in kirtan, in a quiet moment, in your own voice. Old mistakes wash away like dust in the rain. Fears lose their grip, even the big one about dying. Pain and worry stop running the show. Peace finds a place to sit down inside you. Keeping the One near is the wisest thing you can know. At the centre, the Rahao: ears open to the Naam, old mistakes washed away, and nothing left to fear.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Suniai — deep listening — is the doorway here; what is listened to (the Name) is also what quiets fear. The clever-tricks-to-simplicity movement recurs across this Du-Pada set.
For Raag Maaroo
Fear is disarmed not by force but by listening — a gentle answer in the raag of dread.
Hukumnama
Subject: Listen to the Naam, and fear falls away Preview: clever schemes set down, a tongue saying Raam, Raam, listening ears, and a quiet place to rest.
Today: You know the tiring feeling of always trying to look clever. Have an answer ready, win the argument, look cool. You can put all of that down. Meet people who love the One, and let pride go. Then use your ears. Listen to the Naam, in kirtan, in a quiet moment, in your own voice. Old mistakes wash away like dust in the rain. Fears lose their grip, even the big one about dying. Pain and worry stop running the show. Peace finds a place to sit down inside you. Keeping the One near is the wisest thing you can know.
Listen to the Naam, and fear falls away.
For today: Listen to one shabad today with your full attention, phone face down.