Listen, O mind — the cleansing you'd travel far for happens right where you are.
The Arc
Your mind can hold a treasure. Keep the Naam there. It brings you honor where it counts. Everyone who remembers the One is carried across to the far shore. Now listen. Listen, and keep your attention on the Naam. Listen: singing the One's praises washes you as clean as bathing at sixty-eight holy rivers. You can do it right where you are. Listen, turn toward the Guru, and you are honored. Remember the One, the highest of all. Millions of old wrongs fall away in an instant. And you meet the One. At the centre, the Rahao: keep the Naam in mind, a treasure that carries you across.
Key Vocabulary
Partaal (parh-taal) — a form with shifting rhythm and short lines.
naam nidhaan — the Name as treasure.
sun man — listen, O mind; the deep-listening (Suniai) refrain.
athsath — the sixty-eight traditional pilgrimage sites.
paar — carried across to the far shore.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The threefold sun man makes this the raag's clearest Suniai shabad — deep listening as the whole practice. The pilgrimage-reframe (kirtan equals athsath bathing) turns ritual inward. The treasure-and-boat pairing (nidhaan and paar) closes the raag's M4 set on the Name as both wealth and passage.
For Raag Prabhaatee
A quick, turning, chant-like close to the M4 shabads — a dawn call to listen, whose whole message is that the sacred is available right where the waking mind already is.
Hukumnama
Subject: The Naam is a treasure to keep Preview: a treasure, honor at the court, three calls to listen, sixty-eight holy rivers, wrongs gone in an instant.
Today: Your mind can hold a treasure. Keep the Naam there. It brings you honor where it counts. Everyone who remembers the One is carried across to the far shore. Now listen. Listen, and keep your attention on the Naam. Listen: singing the One's praises washes you as clean as bathing at sixty-eight holy rivers. You can do it right where you are. Listen, turn toward the Guru, and you are honored. Remember the One, the highest of all. Millions of old wrongs fall away in an instant. And you meet the One.
Keep the Naam in mind; it is a treasure that carries you across.
For today: Find one quiet minute today, close your eyes, and simply listen.
Listen, O mind — the cleansing you'd travel far for happens right where you are.
The Arc
Your mind can hold a treasure. Keep the Naam there. It brings you honor where it counts. Everyone who remembers the One is carried across to the far shore. Now listen. Listen, and keep your attention on the Naam. Listen: singing the One's praises washes you as clean as bathing at sixty-eight holy rivers. You can do it right where you are. Listen, turn toward the Guru, and you are honored. Remember the One, the highest of all. Millions of old wrongs fall away in an instant. And you meet the One. At the centre, the Rahao: keep the Naam in mind, a treasure that carries you across.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The threefold sun man makes this the raag's clearest Suniai shabad — deep listening as the whole practice. The pilgrimage-reframe (kirtan equals athsath bathing) turns ritual inward. The treasure-and-boat pairing (nidhaan and paar) closes the raag's M4 set on the Name as both wealth and passage.
For Raag Prabhaatee
A quick, turning, chant-like close to the M4 shabads — a dawn call to listen, whose whole message is that the sacred is available right where the waking mind already is.
Hukumnama
Subject: The Naam is a treasure to keep Preview: a treasure, honor at the court, three calls to listen, sixty-eight holy rivers, wrongs gone in an instant.
Today: Your mind can hold a treasure. Keep the Naam there. It brings you honor where it counts. Everyone who remembers the One is carried across to the far shore. Now listen. Listen, and keep your attention on the Naam. Listen: singing the One's praises washes you as clean as bathing at sixty-eight holy rivers. You can do it right where you are. Listen, turn toward the Guru, and you are honored. Remember the One, the highest of all. Millions of old wrongs fall away in an instant. And you meet the One.
Keep the Naam in mind; it is a treasure that carries you across.
For today: Find one quiet minute today, close your eyes, and simply listen.