Sing from the heart and ask — who has ever been left behind? No one, no rank, no exception.
The Arc
Ask yourself: who has ever been left out? Remember the One, and everyone gets across. A bird, a fish, a deer, a bull. Every kind of life finds a way, among people who remember the One. Gods and demons from the old stories, heavenly singers, ordinary people like you. All ride the same boat. Your pains lift too, when you remember the One with others. Wild wanting, anger, sweet things that turn to poison: those pulls fall away. Stay close to the One who is kind to the humble, and give yourself gladly. At the centre, the Rahao: remember the One, and every kind of being is carried across.
Key Vocabulary
saadh sangat — the Sangat, which carries every kind of being across.
kaam / krodh — desire and anger; pulls that loosen, not sins to shame.
deen dayaal — merciful to the meek; the tender tone throughout.
bal jaaee — a glad giving of oneself, offered in devotion.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The list of creatures and the "families of gods and demons" extends the tradition's radical inclusivity — Guru Nanak's spirit — where no being is ranked out of reach. Naming the passions as pulls that loosen when the heart fills fits the view of ego as an illness to heal.
For Raag Malaar
The monsoon that greens the whole earth, here the grace that carries every kind of being across.
Hukumnama
Subject: Remember the One, and everyone gets across Preview: a bird, a fish, a deer, gods and singers in one boat, anger and craving falling away.
Today: Ask yourself: who has ever been left out? Remember the One, and everyone gets across. A bird, a fish, a deer, a bull. Every kind of life finds a way, among people who remember the One. Gods and demons from the old stories, heavenly singers, ordinary people like you. All ride the same boat. Your pains lift too, when you remember the One with others. Wild wanting, anger, sweet things that turn to poison: those pulls fall away. Stay close to the One who is kind to the humble, and give yourself gladly.
Remember the One, and every kind of being is carried across.
For today: Invite someone who usually gets left out to join you today.
Sing from the heart and ask — who has ever been left behind? No one, no rank, no exception.
The Arc
Ask yourself: who has ever been left out? Remember the One, and everyone gets across. A bird, a fish, a deer, a bull. Every kind of life finds a way, among people who remember the One. Gods and demons from the old stories, heavenly singers, ordinary people like you. All ride the same boat. Your pains lift too, when you remember the One with others. Wild wanting, anger, sweet things that turn to poison: those pulls fall away. Stay close to the One who is kind to the humble, and give yourself gladly. At the centre, the Rahao: remember the One, and every kind of being is carried across.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The list of creatures and the "families of gods and demons" extends the tradition's radical inclusivity — Guru Nanak's spirit — where no being is ranked out of reach. Naming the passions as pulls that loosen when the heart fills fits the view of ego as an illness to heal.
For Raag Malaar
The monsoon that greens the whole earth, here the grace that carries every kind of being across.
Hukumnama
Subject: Remember the One, and everyone gets across Preview: a bird, a fish, a deer, gods and singers in one boat, anger and craving falling away.
Today: Ask yourself: who has ever been left out? Remember the One, and everyone gets across. A bird, a fish, a deer, a bull. Every kind of life finds a way, among people who remember the One. Gods and demons from the old stories, heavenly singers, ordinary people like you. All ride the same boat. Your pains lift too, when you remember the One with others. Wild wanting, anger, sweet things that turn to poison: those pulls fall away. Stay close to the One who is kind to the humble, and give yourself gladly.
Remember the One, and every kind of being is carried across.
For today: Invite someone who usually gets left out to join you today.