When the thunder rolls, the peacock sings; when the Beloved draws near, so does your heart.
The Arc
Find your people and sing the Naam with them. Every voice adds to one song. Spend your effort on the one wealth no thief can take. Phones get lost. Money gets spent. The Naam stays with you. Listen to the monsoon. The rain-birds and peacocks call day and night when the thunder rolls in the clouds. Their longing turns into song. The deer, the fish and the birds are singing too, all to the same One. Add your own voice. Sing the One's praise, and the noise of fear, even the fear of death, goes quiet like a storm moving off. At the centre, the Rahao: the One's people sing the Naam, and they sing it together.
Key Vocabulary
partaal — a form set to changing rhythmic cycles; lively and song-like.
har dhan — the wealth of the Name; the one treasure no thief can take.
chaatrik mor / ghanihar — the rain-bird and peacock / the thunder-cloud.
jam kaa sor — the noise and fear of death; here quieted by song.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The chaatrik and peacock crying at the thunder are Malaar's defining images, echoing the rain-bird landmark elsewhere in this raag. That every creature's voice is one song turned to the single Source is Ik Onkar heard as sound.
For Raag Malaar
This is the raag's monsoon at its most vivid: thunder, rain-clouds, the peacock's cry and the rain-bird's call, all longing transformed into a chorus of homecoming. It is the emotional summit of the Fourth Mehl's Malaar.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One's people sing the Naam together Preview: a treasure no thief can take, peacocks crying at the thunder, deer, fish and birds all singing
Today: Find your people and sing the Naam with them. Every voice adds to one song. Spend your effort on the one wealth no thief can take. Phones get lost. Money gets spent. The Naam stays with you. Listen to the monsoon. The rain-birds and peacocks call day and night when the thunder rolls in the clouds. Their longing turns into song. The deer, the fish and the birds are singing too, all to the same One. Add your own voice. Sing the One's praise, and the noise of fear, even the fear of death, goes quiet like a storm moving off.
The One's people sing the Naam, and they sing it together.
For today: Sing or hum one line of praise with someone today.
When the thunder rolls, the peacock sings; when the Beloved draws near, so does your heart.
The Arc
Find your people and sing the Naam with them. Every voice adds to one song. Spend your effort on the one wealth no thief can take. Phones get lost. Money gets spent. The Naam stays with you. Listen to the monsoon. The rain-birds and peacocks call day and night when the thunder rolls in the clouds. Their longing turns into song. The deer, the fish and the birds are singing too, all to the same One. Add your own voice. Sing the One's praise, and the noise of fear, even the fear of death, goes quiet like a storm moving off. At the centre, the Rahao: the One's people sing the Naam, and they sing it together.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The chaatrik and peacock crying at the thunder are Malaar's defining images, echoing the rain-bird landmark elsewhere in this raag. That every creature's voice is one song turned to the single Source is Ik Onkar heard as sound.
For Raag Malaar
This is the raag's monsoon at its most vivid: thunder, rain-clouds, the peacock's cry and the rain-bird's call, all longing transformed into a chorus of homecoming. It is the emotional summit of the Fourth Mehl's Malaar.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One's people sing the Naam together Preview: a treasure no thief can take, peacocks crying at the thunder, deer, fish and birds all singing
Today: Find your people and sing the Naam with them. Every voice adds to one song. Spend your effort on the one wealth no thief can take. Phones get lost. Money gets spent. The Naam stays with you. Listen to the monsoon. The rain-birds and peacocks call day and night when the thunder rolls in the clouds. Their longing turns into song. The deer, the fish and the birds are singing too, all to the same One. Add your own voice. Sing the One's praise, and the noise of fear, even the fear of death, goes quiet like a storm moving off.
The One's people sing the Naam, and they sing it together.
For today: Sing or hum one line of praise with someone today.