I come with empty hands — receive me, and let me rest in Your flow.
The Arc
You can come to the One with empty hands. Ask to be taken in. The One has no edges, and the Word helps you understand. Give your whole self, body and mind. Stay in that shelter for good. Ask to be kept in the flow of the One's will. The Guru shows you that flow, and you rest in easy calm, day and night. Move with it, and the fire of always wanting more cools down. Whatever the Creator does comes to be. Of all the gifts there are, none is greater than the Naam. At the centre, the Rahao: give your whole self to the One, and stay in that shelter always.
Key Vocabulary
nirgunee-aaray — one without merits; coming with empty hands.
bi-ant — endless, without limit; the unmeasurable One.
bal jaa-ee — I give myself; all my love is Yours.
bhaanaa — the divine Will; the flow of existence.
tarisnaa agan — the fire of desire, the endless thirst, cooled by the Guru.
sahj — natural, effortless ease.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad turns on bhaanaa: peace comes from moving with the flow. The cooling of trisnaa agan connects to the water-imagery that recurs across the M4 shabads later in this raag (seetal jal, the Name as cool water).
For Raag Prabhaatee
A dawn prayer of surrender: coming with nothing, asking to be carried by the current rather than fighting upstream. The morning raag suits this posture of quiet trust before the striving of the day.
Hukumnama
Subject: Give your whole self and rest in the One Preview: empty hands, a whole self set down as a gift, a flowing current, a fire of wanting gone cool.
Today: You can come to the One with empty hands. Ask to be taken in. The One has no edges, and the Word helps you understand. Give your whole self, body and mind. Stay in that shelter for good. Ask to be kept in the flow of the One's will. The Guru shows you that flow, and you rest in easy calm, day and night. Move with it, and the fire of always wanting more cools down. Whatever the Creator does comes to be. Of all the gifts there are, none is greater than the Naam.
Give your whole self to the One, and stay in that shelter always.
For today: Before a busy moment today, set it down before the One and take one slow breath.
I come with empty hands — receive me, and let me rest in Your flow.
The Arc
You can come to the One with empty hands. Ask to be taken in. The One has no edges, and the Word helps you understand. Give your whole self, body and mind. Stay in that shelter for good. Ask to be kept in the flow of the One's will. The Guru shows you that flow, and you rest in easy calm, day and night. Move with it, and the fire of always wanting more cools down. Whatever the Creator does comes to be. Of all the gifts there are, none is greater than the Naam. At the centre, the Rahao: give your whole self to the One, and stay in that shelter always.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad turns on bhaanaa: peace comes from moving with the flow. The cooling of trisnaa agan connects to the water-imagery that recurs across the M4 shabads later in this raag (seetal jal, the Name as cool water).
For Raag Prabhaatee
A dawn prayer of surrender: coming with nothing, asking to be carried by the current rather than fighting upstream. The morning raag suits this posture of quiet trust before the striving of the day.
Hukumnama
Subject: Give your whole self and rest in the One Preview: empty hands, a whole self set down as a gift, a flowing current, a fire of wanting gone cool.
Today: You can come to the One with empty hands. Ask to be taken in. The One has no edges, and the Word helps you understand. Give your whole self, body and mind. Stay in that shelter for good. Ask to be kept in the flow of the One's will. The Guru shows you that flow, and you rest in easy calm, day and night. Move with it, and the fire of always wanting more cools down. Whatever the Creator does comes to be. Of all the gifts there are, none is greater than the Naam.
Give your whole self to the One, and stay in that shelter always.
For today: Before a busy moment today, set it down before the One and take one slow breath.