Found by grace and kept in the Sangat, the Naam turns doubt and fear into quiet joy.
The Arc
The Naam is higher than you can reach, and still it comes to your lips as a gift. With luck, you find the Sangat, people gathered to remember the One, and together you cross over. Your mind fills with joy, day and night. Doubt and fear fade, like shadows when a night-light comes on. Ask to be near people who sing of the One. Seeing them brings peace and eases the sore ache of ego. Keep the Naam in your heart, and your life bears fruit. Your family and the world around you cross with you. The One made everything and pulls you out when you are sinking. At the centre, the Rahao: by the Guru's grace, the Naam fills the mind with joy and sends doubt and fear away.
Key Vocabulary
agam agochar — beyond reach, beyond the senses; yet given by grace.
anad — ecstasy, joy; here steady and quiet.
haumai rog — the disease of ego; healed in the Sangat.
kaadh la-i-aa — lifted out; rescue from deep water.
bikh — poison; the ocean of poison one is pulled out of.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Ego named as a rog, a sickness healed by the company of the truthful, runs throughout Gurbani. The motif that one's goodness carries a whole circle across recurs in the Fourth Mehl.
For Raag Malaar
The rescue from deep water is the raag's element turned to relief: the sinking one lifted, the storm-tossed soul drawn up into stillness.
Hukumnama
Subject: The Naam fills my mind with joy Preview: a Naam beyond reach, a crossing, joy night and day, healing company, a fruitful life, rescue from a poison sea
Today: The Naam is higher than you can reach, and still it comes to your lips as a gift. With luck, you find the Sangat, people gathered to remember the One, and together you cross over. Your mind fills with joy, day and night. Doubt and fear fade, like shadows when a night-light comes on. Ask to be near people who sing of the One. Seeing them brings peace and eases the sore ache of ego. Keep the Naam in your heart, and your life bears fruit. Your family and the world around you cross with you. The One made everything and pulls you out when you are sinking.
By the Guru's grace, the Naam fills your mind with joy and sends doubt and fear away.
For today: Name one fear out loud today, then sit for two quiet minutes with the Naam.
Found by grace and kept in the Sangat, the Naam turns doubt and fear into quiet joy.
The Arc
The Naam is higher than you can reach, and still it comes to your lips as a gift. With luck, you find the Sangat, people gathered to remember the One, and together you cross over. Your mind fills with joy, day and night. Doubt and fear fade, like shadows when a night-light comes on. Ask to be near people who sing of the One. Seeing them brings peace and eases the sore ache of ego. Keep the Naam in your heart, and your life bears fruit. Your family and the world around you cross with you. The One made everything and pulls you out when you are sinking. At the centre, the Rahao: by the Guru's grace, the Naam fills the mind with joy and sends doubt and fear away.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Ego named as a rog, a sickness healed by the company of the truthful, runs throughout Gurbani. The motif that one's goodness carries a whole circle across recurs in the Fourth Mehl.
For Raag Malaar
The rescue from deep water is the raag's element turned to relief: the sinking one lifted, the storm-tossed soul drawn up into stillness.
Hukumnama
Subject: The Naam fills my mind with joy Preview: a Naam beyond reach, a crossing, joy night and day, healing company, a fruitful life, rescue from a poison sea
Today: The Naam is higher than you can reach, and still it comes to your lips as a gift. With luck, you find the Sangat, people gathered to remember the One, and together you cross over. Your mind fills with joy, day and night. Doubt and fear fade, like shadows when a night-light comes on. Ask to be near people who sing of the One. Seeing them brings peace and eases the sore ache of ego. Keep the Naam in your heart, and your life bears fruit. Your family and the world around you cross with you. The One made everything and pulls you out when you are sinking.
By the Guru's grace, the Naam fills your mind with joy and sends doubt and fear away.
For today: Name one fear out loud today, then sit for two quiet minutes with the Naam.