Praise the One, and you come to know the One. Doubt fades. The feeling of me here, everything else out there, fades too. Say it with your whole heart: You are my one and only. Freedom and clear thinking come from there. Praise brings a sweetness that never goes flat. Turn the Word over slowly in your mind. The One who made it sweet knows it best. Busy with praise, your self-importance loosens like a knot. The Guru keeps giving. Through the Word, you find the True One. At the centre, the Rahao: the One is your one and only, and freedom and wisdom come from there.
Key Vocabulary
salaahi har jaataa — knowing the One through praising — love as a way of knowing.
doojaa / bharam — duality and doubt; the sense of a second, separate reality.
gat mat — freedom and wisdom, both from the One.
amrit — nectar; the never-bland sweetness.
aap gavaa-ee — losing self-conceit; the loosening of haumai.
sadaa hai daataa — forever the Giver.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Love-as-knowing (jaataa) and the dissolving of duality are the same movement seen from two sides. The Giver-keeps-giving theme links directly to the M3 shabads around it and to the raag's steady emphasis that liberation and wisdom are received as gifts.
For Raag Prabhaatee
A morning meditation on how devotion itself teaches. The dawn heart that begins in praise ends in knowing — and in the quiet loosening of the sense of being separate.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One is my one and only Preview: praise that becomes knowing, a nectar that never goes flat, a loosening knot, a Giver who keeps giving.
Today: Praise the One, and you come to know the One. Doubt fades. The feeling of me here, everything else out there, fades too. Say it with your whole heart: You are my one and only. Freedom and clear thinking come from there. Praise brings a sweetness that never goes flat. Turn the Word over slowly in your mind. The One who made it sweet knows it best. Busy with praise, your self-importance loosens like a knot. The Guru keeps giving. Through the Word, you find the True One.
The One is your one and only, and freedom and wisdom come from there.
For today: Name one good thing in you that came as a gift, and say thank you for it.
Praising the One is how you come to know the One.
The Arc
Praise the One, and you come to know the One. Doubt fades. The feeling of me here, everything else out there, fades too. Say it with your whole heart: You are my one and only. Freedom and clear thinking come from there. Praise brings a sweetness that never goes flat. Turn the Word over slowly in your mind. The One who made it sweet knows it best. Busy with praise, your self-importance loosens like a knot. The Guru keeps giving. Through the Word, you find the True One. At the centre, the Rahao: the One is your one and only, and freedom and wisdom come from there.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Love-as-knowing (jaataa) and the dissolving of duality are the same movement seen from two sides. The Giver-keeps-giving theme links directly to the M3 shabads around it and to the raag's steady emphasis that liberation and wisdom are received as gifts.
For Raag Prabhaatee
A morning meditation on how devotion itself teaches. The dawn heart that begins in praise ends in knowing — and in the quiet loosening of the sense of being separate.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One is my one and only Preview: praise that becomes knowing, a nectar that never goes flat, a loosening knot, a Giver who keeps giving.
Today: Praise the One, and you come to know the One. Doubt fades. The feeling of me here, everything else out there, fades too. Say it with your whole heart: You are my one and only. Freedom and clear thinking come from there. Praise brings a sweetness that never goes flat. Turn the Word over slowly in your mind. The One who made it sweet knows it best. Busy with praise, your self-importance loosens like a knot. The Guru keeps giving. Through the Word, you find the True One.
The One is your one and only, and freedom and wisdom come from there.
For today: Name one good thing in you that came as a gift, and say thank you for it.