Missing someone you love can show on your face. Tangled in your own doing, you feel lost. Then the rain comes, and the Beloved comes home. You thank the Guru who brought you together. That love stays new every day. You belong to the One, and the One belongs to you. The rough sea is behind you. A heart that lights up is the best thing you can wear. Lean on the Naam. The knots come loose, and the Naam lives deep in your heart. At the centre, the Rahao: rain down, clouds, the Beloved has come home, thanks to the Guru.
Key Vocabulary
baras ghanaa mayraa pir ghar aa-i-aa — rain down, the Beloved has come home.
nautan preet — a love forever new.
niranjan / akul niranjan — the Immaculate One, beyond caste and lineage.
mukat — freedom; the knots of the heart untied.
bhavjal — the world-ocean; the rough waters of coming and going.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Paired with the earlier baras ghanaa shabad, this is viraha resolved into homecoming. akul niranjan quietly sounds the caste-leveling note that runs through the whole tradition.
For Raag Malaar
The raag's promise fulfilled: separation turning to reunion with the rains, the peacock's cry answered by the cloud.
Hukumnama
Subject: Let it rain: the Beloved has come home Preview: a wilted face, rain clouds, a love always new, calm after a rough sea, a glowing heart, knots untied
Today: Missing someone you love can show on your face. Tangled in your own doing, you feel lost. Then the rain comes, and the Beloved comes home. You thank the Guru who brought you together. That love stays new every day. You belong to the One, and the One belongs to you. The rough sea is behind you. A heart that lights up is the best thing you can wear. Lean on the Naam. The knots come loose, and the Naam lives deep in your heart.
Rain down, clouds: the Beloved has come home, and you thank the Guru who brought the meeting.
For today: Greet someone coming home today as if their arrival is the best news of your day.
Rain down, clouds — the Beloved has come home.
The Arc
Missing someone you love can show on your face. Tangled in your own doing, you feel lost. Then the rain comes, and the Beloved comes home. You thank the Guru who brought you together. That love stays new every day. You belong to the One, and the One belongs to you. The rough sea is behind you. A heart that lights up is the best thing you can wear. Lean on the Naam. The knots come loose, and the Naam lives deep in your heart. At the centre, the Rahao: rain down, clouds, the Beloved has come home, thanks to the Guru.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Paired with the earlier baras ghanaa shabad, this is viraha resolved into homecoming. akul niranjan quietly sounds the caste-leveling note that runs through the whole tradition.
For Raag Malaar
The raag's promise fulfilled: separation turning to reunion with the rains, the peacock's cry answered by the cloud.
Hukumnama
Subject: Let it rain: the Beloved has come home Preview: a wilted face, rain clouds, a love always new, calm after a rough sea, a glowing heart, knots untied
Today: Missing someone you love can show on your face. Tangled in your own doing, you feel lost. Then the rain comes, and the Beloved comes home. You thank the Guru who brought you together. That love stays new every day. You belong to the One, and the One belongs to you. The rough sea is behind you. A heart that lights up is the best thing you can wear. Lean on the Naam. The knots come loose, and the Naam lives deep in your heart.
Rain down, clouds: the Beloved has come home, and you thank the Guru who brought the meeting.
For today: Greet someone coming home today as if their arrival is the best news of your day.