The mind flows into the One like a stream into the sea.
The Arc
Praise the Guru, the Giver of peace, and you reach the highest place. Sing the One's praises, and you melt into the True One. So take the Guru's Word to heart. Loosen your grip on what clings, on ego's poison, on endless wanting. Remember, gently, that one day you will leave. The Guru gives the Naam, and it fills the deepest hunger. The Word goes straight to your heart. The One stays unseen, and still you can speak of the One. The endless coming and going ends. Your mind flows into the One like a stream into the sea. Let ego go. Only the One lives within, and the Naam tastes sweet. At the centre, the Rahao: reflect on the Guru's Word in your heart, and remember that one day you will leave.
Key Vocabulary
sukh-daataa — the Giver of peace, pointing straight to the One.
koorh kutamb — clinging attachments; loosened, not loved ones rejected.
akath kahaanee — the unspoken story; speaking what cannot be spoken.
man hee tay man mili-aa — the mind merging into the Mind, stream into sea.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The mind-into-Mind image rhymes with the tradition's recurring wave-and-ocean and stream-and-sea pictures of union. Speaking the unspoken (akath) marks the limit of language before the One.
For Raag Malaar
The longing heart arriving home: the stream that has found the sea it was always flowing toward.
Hukumnama
Subject: Reflect on the Guru's Word in your heart Preview: a Giver of peace, ego's poison, a gift that fills hunger, a Word that pierces, a stream meeting the sea
Today: Praise the Guru, the Giver of peace, and you reach the highest place. Sing the One's praises, and you melt into the True One. So take the Guru's Word to heart. Loosen your grip on what clings, on ego's poison, on endless wanting. Remember, gently, that one day you will leave. The Guru gives the Naam, and it fills the deepest hunger. The Word goes straight to your heart. The One stays unseen, and still you can speak of the One. The endless coming and going ends. Your mind flows into the One like a stream into the sea. Let ego go. Only the One lives within, and the Naam tastes sweet.
Reflect on the Guru's Word in your heart, and remember that one day you will leave.
For today: Pick one thing you cling to today and hold it a little more lightly.
The mind flows into the One like a stream into the sea.
The Arc
Praise the Guru, the Giver of peace, and you reach the highest place. Sing the One's praises, and you melt into the True One. So take the Guru's Word to heart. Loosen your grip on what clings, on ego's poison, on endless wanting. Remember, gently, that one day you will leave. The Guru gives the Naam, and it fills the deepest hunger. The Word goes straight to your heart. The One stays unseen, and still you can speak of the One. The endless coming and going ends. Your mind flows into the One like a stream into the sea. Let ego go. Only the One lives within, and the Naam tastes sweet. At the centre, the Rahao: reflect on the Guru's Word in your heart, and remember that one day you will leave.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The mind-into-Mind image rhymes with the tradition's recurring wave-and-ocean and stream-and-sea pictures of union. Speaking the unspoken (akath) marks the limit of language before the One.
For Raag Malaar
The longing heart arriving home: the stream that has found the sea it was always flowing toward.
Hukumnama
Subject: Reflect on the Guru's Word in your heart Preview: a Giver of peace, ego's poison, a gift that fills hunger, a Word that pierces, a stream meeting the sea
Today: Praise the Guru, the Giver of peace, and you reach the highest place. Sing the One's praises, and you melt into the True One. So take the Guru's Word to heart. Loosen your grip on what clings, on ego's poison, on endless wanting. Remember, gently, that one day you will leave. The Guru gives the Naam, and it fills the deepest hunger. The Word goes straight to your heart. The One stays unseen, and still you can speak of the One. The endless coming and going ends. Your mind flows into the One like a stream into the sea. Let ego go. Only the One lives within, and the Naam tastes sweet.
Reflect on the Guru's Word in your heart, and remember that one day you will leave.
For today: Pick one thing you cling to today and hold it a little more lightly.