Dyed in the deep crimson of love, the tongue tastes the One everywhere.
The Arc
Look inside this morning and meet the Word. Let your mind settle there. Once that color soaks in, nothing else can dye you. Day and night, the One looks after every living thing. The One is dyed in the deepest red, kind to the small, so sweet that your heart turns toward it. There is a well high up inside you, and sweet nectar flows from it. Light spreads, and your heart opens like a lotus at sunrise. Death loosens its hold. The wanting goes still. Grace brings you to the One. Dyed in love all the way through, you taste the One everywhere. At the centre, the Rahao: the One is dyed in the deepest color of love, and hearts turn toward it.
Key Vocabulary
Raanganhaaraa — that which dyes or colors; nothing else can color the settled heart. At ras laal sagoorhou — deeply sweet, saturated crimson. Oopar koop gagan — the well high in the sky, the inner fountain (dasam duaar). Kamal bigaasay — the heart-lotus blossoms (vigaas). Kaal biDhuns — death defeated; its fear loses its grip. Gur parsaad — by grace. Chalool — poppy-red, the fast color of love.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The dyeing metaphor gives the whole shabad its unity: once the heart takes the true color, lesser colors no longer hold. The high well is the inner fountain, a paradox of a well not dug down but found up within. Blossoming (vigaas) paired with grace pictures the heart opening when it stops blocking the light.
For Raag Prabhaatee
Crimson and first light make this an especially fitting shabad for the dawn raag; the color of love reads as sunrise.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One is dyed in the color of love Preview: a heart dyed through, a well high in the sky, a lotus opening at dawn, a tongue soaked in sweetness.
Today: Look inside this morning and meet the Word. Let your mind settle there. Once that color soaks in, nothing else can dye you. Day and night, the One looks after every living thing. The One is dyed in the deepest red, kind to the small, so sweet that your heart turns toward it. There is a well high up inside you, and sweet nectar flows from it. Light spreads, and your heart opens like a lotus at sunrise. Death loosens its hold. The wanting goes still. Grace brings you to the One. Dyed in love all the way through, you taste the One everywhere.
The One is dyed in the deepest color of love, and your heart turns toward it.
For today: Find one deep red thing this morning and let it remind you of the One's love.
Dyed in the deep crimson of love, the tongue tastes the One everywhere.
The Arc
Look inside this morning and meet the Word. Let your mind settle there. Once that color soaks in, nothing else can dye you. Day and night, the One looks after every living thing. The One is dyed in the deepest red, kind to the small, so sweet that your heart turns toward it. There is a well high up inside you, and sweet nectar flows from it. Light spreads, and your heart opens like a lotus at sunrise. Death loosens its hold. The wanting goes still. Grace brings you to the One. Dyed in love all the way through, you taste the One everywhere. At the centre, the Rahao: the One is dyed in the deepest color of love, and hearts turn toward it.
Key Vocabulary
Raanganhaaraa — that which dyes or colors; nothing else can color the settled heart. At ras laal sagoorhou — deeply sweet, saturated crimson. Oopar koop gagan — the well high in the sky, the inner fountain (dasam duaar). Kamal bigaasay — the heart-lotus blossoms (vigaas). Kaal biDhuns — death defeated; its fear loses its grip. Gur parsaad — by grace. Chalool — poppy-red, the fast color of love.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The dyeing metaphor gives the whole shabad its unity: once the heart takes the true color, lesser colors no longer hold. The high well is the inner fountain, a paradox of a well not dug down but found up within. Blossoming (vigaas) paired with grace pictures the heart opening when it stops blocking the light.
For Raag Prabhaatee
Crimson and first light make this an especially fitting shabad for the dawn raag; the color of love reads as sunrise.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One is dyed in the color of love Preview: a heart dyed through, a well high in the sky, a lotus opening at dawn, a tongue soaked in sweetness.
Today: Look inside this morning and meet the Word. Let your mind settle there. Once that color soaks in, nothing else can dye you. Day and night, the One looks after every living thing. The One is dyed in the deepest red, kind to the small, so sweet that your heart turns toward it. There is a well high up inside you, and sweet nectar flows from it. Light spreads, and your heart opens like a lotus at sunrise. Death loosens its hold. The wanting goes still. Grace brings you to the One. Dyed in love all the way through, you taste the One everywhere.
The One is dyed in the deepest color of love, and your heart turns toward it.
For today: Find one deep red thing this morning and let it remind you of the One's love.