Householder, servant, and free all at once — the one who knows their own self.
The Arc
Stay humble around holy people. Join the Sangat and sing the One's praises. That carries you across rough water. With the One in your heart, death has nothing to frighten. Without the Naam, life goes up in smoke. Say the Naam, and its sweet flavor fills your mind. Follow the Guru's teaching, and you find a peace too big for words and treasure inside. Make wisdom your wealth. Rest in the One who needs nothing and fears nothing. Turn your wandering mind around, like an upside-down boat that floats. Know your own self, and you can keep a home and be free inside. At the centre, the Rahao: without the Naam life goes up in smoke, and with it a sweet flavor fills the mind.
Key Vocabulary
Santaa kee rayn — the dust of the saints' feet, humility. Jal jaa-o jeevan — may life burn away; a life without the Naam. Japmaalee / saad — the mala and the flavor of the Name that comes to the mind. Nirbha-o — fearless, a Mool Mantar quality. Ultee naav — the inverted boat that floats across. Sahj samaavai — absorbed in natural ease. So girhee so daas udaasee — householder, servant, renunciate, all in one.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The Sangat opens the shabad as the boat across rough water. The fearless, self-sufficient One echoes the opening words of the Mool Mantar. The inverted boat is a vivid image of the mind turned from outward chasing to inward rest, floating in sahaj. The closing integration of householder and renunciate resolves a theme opened earlier in the run, giving the section a satisfying close.
For Raag Prabhaatee
As the last of this stretch of dawn shabads, its note of settled, fearless contentment reads like full morning light.
Hukumnama
Subject: The Naam puts the flavor into life Preview: the dust of saints' feet, prayer beads, rubies and gems, an upside-down boat on seven seas.
Today: Stay humble around holy people. Join the Sangat and sing the One's praises. That carries you across rough water. With the One in your heart, death has nothing to frighten. Without the Naam, life goes up in smoke. Say the Naam, and its sweet flavor fills your mind. Follow the Guru's teaching, and you find a peace too big for words and treasure inside. Make wisdom your wealth. Rest in the One who needs nothing and fears nothing. Turn your wandering mind around, like an upside-down boat that floats. Know your own self, and you can keep a home and be free inside.
Without the Naam life goes up in smoke, and with it a sweet flavor fills your mind.
For today: Say the Naam slowly a few times this morning and notice its flavor.
Householder, servant, and free all at once — the one who knows their own self.
The Arc
Stay humble around holy people. Join the Sangat and sing the One's praises. That carries you across rough water. With the One in your heart, death has nothing to frighten. Without the Naam, life goes up in smoke. Say the Naam, and its sweet flavor fills your mind. Follow the Guru's teaching, and you find a peace too big for words and treasure inside. Make wisdom your wealth. Rest in the One who needs nothing and fears nothing. Turn your wandering mind around, like an upside-down boat that floats. Know your own self, and you can keep a home and be free inside. At the centre, the Rahao: without the Naam life goes up in smoke, and with it a sweet flavor fills the mind.
Key Vocabulary
Santaa kee rayn — the dust of the saints' feet, humility. Jal jaa-o jeevan — may life burn away; a life without the Naam. Japmaalee / saad — the mala and the flavor of the Name that comes to the mind. Nirbha-o — fearless, a Mool Mantar quality. Ultee naav — the inverted boat that floats across. Sahj samaavai — absorbed in natural ease. So girhee so daas udaasee — householder, servant, renunciate, all in one.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The Sangat opens the shabad as the boat across rough water. The fearless, self-sufficient One echoes the opening words of the Mool Mantar. The inverted boat is a vivid image of the mind turned from outward chasing to inward rest, floating in sahaj. The closing integration of householder and renunciate resolves a theme opened earlier in the run, giving the section a satisfying close.
For Raag Prabhaatee
As the last of this stretch of dawn shabads, its note of settled, fearless contentment reads like full morning light.
Hukumnama
Subject: The Naam puts the flavor into life Preview: the dust of saints' feet, prayer beads, rubies and gems, an upside-down boat on seven seas.
Today: Stay humble around holy people. Join the Sangat and sing the One's praises. That carries you across rough water. With the One in your heart, death has nothing to frighten. Without the Naam, life goes up in smoke. Say the Naam, and its sweet flavor fills your mind. Follow the Guru's teaching, and you find a peace too big for words and treasure inside. Make wisdom your wealth. Rest in the One who needs nothing and fears nothing. Turn your wandering mind around, like an upside-down boat that floats. Know your own self, and you can keep a home and be free inside.
Without the Naam life goes up in smoke, and with it a sweet flavor fills your mind.
For today: Say the Naam slowly a few times this morning and notice its flavor.