You can be wide awake outside and asleep within; one Love comes anyway.
The Arc
You can be wide awake and still asleep inside. Your head is busy with chores while what matters slips away. You come full of hope and leave full of wanting. The One who gives life is always awake. That One is an ocean of peace, a treasure of sweet nectar. Even when you stumble and cannot see, the One's love comes on its own. Day after day, life wears away a little. Hold tight to passing things, and you sink. The Guru gives you ground to stand on. Day and night, the One watches over every living being. Come with empty hands and ask for the gift of Truth. At the centre, the Rahao: the One who gives life is always awake, an ocean of peace.
Key Vocabulary
Jaagat bigsai mootho — awake and pleased yet plundered; spiritual sleep. Jaaganhaaraa — the ever-wakeful One. Karmee milai vadaa-ee — greatness bestowed by grace. Maa-i-aa moh — attachment to the passing world. Doojee — duality, the sense of separation (haumai). Karamheen — one with nothing earned, coming empty-handed. Sach bheekhi-aa — the charity of Truth.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Spiritual wakefulness versus sleepwalking is the shabad's spine, answered by the ever-awake One toward whom turning wakes us too. The unearned Love that comes even to the stumbling is grace itself. Duality named as doojee ties the diagnosis to haumai, the illusion of separation, with the Guru as its cure.
For Raag Prabhaatee
Waking, dawn, and the ever-awake One make this shabad especially at home in the raag of first light.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One who gives life is always awake Preview: a sleepwalker being robbed, tangled threads, an ocean of peace, days wearing away, empty hands held out.
Today: You can be wide awake and still asleep inside. Your head is busy with chores while what matters slips away. You come full of hope and leave full of wanting. The One who gives life is always awake. That One is an ocean of peace, a treasure of sweet nectar. Even when you stumble and cannot see, the One's love comes on its own. Day after day, life wears away a little. Hold tight to passing things, and you sink. The Guru gives you ground to stand on. Day and night, the One watches over every living being. Come with empty hands and ask for the gift of Truth.
The One who gives life is always awake, an ocean of peace.
For today: Set your phone down for ten minutes today and notice who is around you.
You can be wide awake outside and asleep within; one Love comes anyway.
The Arc
You can be wide awake and still asleep inside. Your head is busy with chores while what matters slips away. You come full of hope and leave full of wanting. The One who gives life is always awake. That One is an ocean of peace, a treasure of sweet nectar. Even when you stumble and cannot see, the One's love comes on its own. Day after day, life wears away a little. Hold tight to passing things, and you sink. The Guru gives you ground to stand on. Day and night, the One watches over every living being. Come with empty hands and ask for the gift of Truth. At the centre, the Rahao: the One who gives life is always awake, an ocean of peace.
Key Vocabulary
Jaagat bigsai mootho — awake and pleased yet plundered; spiritual sleep. Jaaganhaaraa — the ever-wakeful One. Karmee milai vadaa-ee — greatness bestowed by grace. Maa-i-aa moh — attachment to the passing world. Doojee — duality, the sense of separation (haumai). Karamheen — one with nothing earned, coming empty-handed. Sach bheekhi-aa — the charity of Truth.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Spiritual wakefulness versus sleepwalking is the shabad's spine, answered by the ever-awake One toward whom turning wakes us too. The unearned Love that comes even to the stumbling is grace itself. Duality named as doojee ties the diagnosis to haumai, the illusion of separation, with the Guru as its cure.
For Raag Prabhaatee
Waking, dawn, and the ever-awake One make this shabad especially at home in the raag of first light.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One who gives life is always awake Preview: a sleepwalker being robbed, tangled threads, an ocean of peace, days wearing away, empty hands held out.
Today: You can be wide awake and still asleep inside. Your head is busy with chores while what matters slips away. You come full of hope and leave full of wanting. The One who gives life is always awake. That One is an ocean of peace, a treasure of sweet nectar. Even when you stumble and cannot see, the One's love comes on its own. Day after day, life wears away a little. Hold tight to passing things, and you sink. The Guru gives you ground to stand on. Day and night, the One watches over every living being. Come with empty hands and ask for the gift of Truth.
The One who gives life is always awake, an ocean of peace.
For today: Set your phone down for ten minutes today and notice who is around you.