Your own body is the temple where the Light already lives.
The Arc
Look at the habits that sour a day. Wanting what belongs to someone else. Greed. Ego. Putting people down. Anger that boils over. You can set each one down. The boundless One sits in a mansion inside you. Live in tune with the Word, and you find the nectar there. Meet good days and hard days with the same steady heart. Wisdom grows in the Naam, and love for the Guru grows in the Sangat. The Naam is a gain that keeps growing, day and night. Your own body is a temple, and endless Light lives inside it. At the centre, the Rahao: the boundless One sits inside you, and a life in tune with the Word finds the nectar.
Key Vocabulary
par daaraa / par dhan — others' wives, others' wealth; craving what is not ours.
mahal — the mansion where the One dwells, nearer than it sounds.
dukh sukh sam — meeting pleasure and pain with an even heart.
kaa-i-aa mahal mandar — the body as mansion, temple, home of the One.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The body-as-temple close is a recurring landmark across the raags (Peepaa, and elsewhere). Even-mindedness (sahj) links it to the tradition's picture of the unshaken Gurmukh.
For Raag Malaar
The indwelling One: the rain the raag longs for is already inside, kept in the temple of the body.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One lives in the mansion inside you Preview: greed and anger set down, a hidden mansion, nectar inside, steady through pain, the body a temple of Light
Today: Look at the habits that sour a day. Wanting what belongs to someone else. Greed. Ego. Putting people down. Anger that boils over. You can set each one down. The boundless One sits in a mansion inside you. Live in tune with the Word, and you find the nectar there. Meet good days and hard days with the same steady heart. Wisdom grows in the Naam, and love for the Guru grows in the Sangat. The Naam is a gain that keeps growing, day and night. Your own body is a temple, and endless Light lives inside it.
The boundless One sits inside you, and a life in tune with the Word finds the nectar.
For today: Pick one habit that sours your day, like a sharp word, and set it down until bedtime.
Your own body is the temple where the Light already lives.
The Arc
Look at the habits that sour a day. Wanting what belongs to someone else. Greed. Ego. Putting people down. Anger that boils over. You can set each one down. The boundless One sits in a mansion inside you. Live in tune with the Word, and you find the nectar there. Meet good days and hard days with the same steady heart. Wisdom grows in the Naam, and love for the Guru grows in the Sangat. The Naam is a gain that keeps growing, day and night. Your own body is a temple, and endless Light lives inside it. At the centre, the Rahao: the boundless One sits inside you, and a life in tune with the Word finds the nectar.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The body-as-temple close is a recurring landmark across the raags (Peepaa, and elsewhere). Even-mindedness (sahj) links it to the tradition's picture of the unshaken Gurmukh.
For Raag Malaar
The indwelling One: the rain the raag longs for is already inside, kept in the temple of the body.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One lives in the mansion inside you Preview: greed and anger set down, a hidden mansion, nectar inside, steady through pain, the body a temple of Light
Today: Look at the habits that sour a day. Wanting what belongs to someone else. Greed. Ego. Putting people down. Anger that boils over. You can set each one down. The boundless One sits in a mansion inside you. Live in tune with the Word, and you find the nectar there. Meet good days and hard days with the same steady heart. Wisdom grows in the Naam, and love for the Guru grows in the Sangat. The Naam is a gain that keeps growing, day and night. Your own body is a temple, and endless Light lives inside it.
The boundless One sits inside you, and a life in tune with the Word finds the nectar.
For today: Pick one habit that sours your day, like a sharp word, and set it down until bedtime.