Pride is heavy; setting it down is a relief, not a loss.
The Arc
A short shabad on lightness. Sing the One's praises every day and plant the Name in your mind; then gently set down pride and the puffed-up me, keep good company, and sorrows quietly end. When grace pours in, life's knots come undone, and a humble heart stays clear, singing on.
Key Vocabulary
gun gopaal gaa-o neet — daily praise of the Beloved.
dhaar cheet — the Name held in awareness.
maan / gumaan — pride and conceit; haumai.
janjaal — the entangling knots of life.
charan laag — humility at the feet of the holy.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Daily remembrance, ego set down as a burden released, and grace untangling life all belong together: the project reads haumai not as a sin to punish but as a weight to lay down, and here the laying-down and the untangling happen almost in the same breath.
For Raag Malaar
Sorrows coming to an end and knots undone is the flood-water receding, the ground drying clear — the raag's storm passing into calm.
Pride is heavy; setting it down is a relief, not a loss.
The Arc
A short shabad on lightness. Sing the One's praises every day and plant the Name in your mind; then gently set down pride and the puffed-up me, keep good company, and sorrows quietly end. When grace pours in, life's knots come undone, and a humble heart stays clear, singing on.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Daily remembrance, ego set down as a burden released, and grace untangling life all belong together: the project reads haumai not as a sin to punish but as a weight to lay down, and here the laying-down and the untangling happen almost in the same breath.
For Raag Malaar
Sorrows coming to an end and knots undone is the flood-water receding, the ground drying clear — the raag's storm passing into calm.