The restless mind, touched by grace, settles like a spinning top come to rest.
The Arc
The place you are looking for is closer than you think. The True Guru shows you the One's palace inside your own home. Let the Guru's Word melt your pride. Some people carry the Naam like words written on their foreheads. They keep it close night and day, and they are honored in the True Court. You can learn how your own mind works. It plays all day. In one second it runs off in ten directions and comes back. When the One looks at you with kindness, it settles at once. Think over the Word, and you start to understand yourself. Keep the Naam close, and you cross the widest water. At the centre, the Rahao: those who keep the Naam close night and day are honored in the True Court.
Key Vocabulary
du-tukay — couplets; a song of two-line verses.
ghar dar mahal — the Mansion found within one's own home.
lilaat likhi-aa — written on the forehead; what a life is shaped by from the start.
man kee bidh — the ways of one's own mind, learned from the teaching.
dah dis — the ten directions the restless mind runs in.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The mind's darting and settling is the shabad's centre. The far-shore image belongs with the raag's waters, crossed by the Name.
For Raag Malaar
The far shore reached across the widest waters — the calm that follows the storm.
Hukumnama
Subject: Keep the Naam close and you are honored Preview: a palace inside your own home, a name on the forehead, a mind running ten ways, the far shore.
Today: The place you are looking for is closer than you think. The True Guru shows you the One's palace inside your own home. Let the Guru's Word melt your pride. Some people carry the Naam like words written on their foreheads. They keep it close night and day, and they are honored in the True Court. You can learn how your own mind works. It plays all day. In one second it runs off in ten directions and comes back. When the One looks at you with kindness, it settles at once. Think over the Word, and you start to understand yourself. Keep the Naam close, and you cross the widest water.
Those who keep the Naam close night and day are honored in the True Court.
For today: When your mind races off today, take three slow breaths and bring it back to the Naam.
The restless mind, touched by grace, settles like a spinning top come to rest.
The Arc
The place you are looking for is closer than you think. The True Guru shows you the One's palace inside your own home. Let the Guru's Word melt your pride. Some people carry the Naam like words written on their foreheads. They keep it close night and day, and they are honored in the True Court. You can learn how your own mind works. It plays all day. In one second it runs off in ten directions and comes back. When the One looks at you with kindness, it settles at once. Think over the Word, and you start to understand yourself. Keep the Naam close, and you cross the widest water. At the centre, the Rahao: those who keep the Naam close night and day are honored in the True Court.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The mind's darting and settling is the shabad's centre. The far-shore image belongs with the raag's waters, crossed by the Name.
For Raag Malaar
The far shore reached across the widest waters — the calm that follows the storm.
Hukumnama
Subject: Keep the Naam close and you are honored Preview: a palace inside your own home, a name on the forehead, a mind running ten ways, the far shore.
Today: The place you are looking for is closer than you think. The True Guru shows you the One's palace inside your own home. Let the Guru's Word melt your pride. Some people carry the Naam like words written on their foreheads. They keep it close night and day, and they are honored in the True Court. You can learn how your own mind works. It plays all day. In one second it runs off in ten directions and comes back. When the One looks at you with kindness, it settles at once. Think over the Word, and you start to understand yourself. Keep the Naam close, and you cross the widest water.
Those who keep the Naam close night and day are honored in the True Court.
For today: When your mind races off today, take three slow breaths and bring it back to the Naam.