Some true things stay steady through every wind, and grace gently covers your faults, like a blanket over a sleeping child.
The Arc
Some things stay steady, forever. The Guru's word is one of them. Let it fill your mind, and pain runs off. Let love color you through, and you start to sing. Sit humbly with good people, and you are set free. You get carried across rough water. Fear, doubt and wrong turns fall away. You stand fearless in the One's shelter. Joy, ease and peace pile up. Enemies and pain keep their distance. The Guru makes you the Guru's own and keeps you safe. Friends and learners are lifted up together. The trap of being born and dying is cut. And the Guru gently covers your faults. At the centre, the Rahao: love sets you singing, and humility sets you free.
Key Vocabulary
Sabad sadaa atlaa — the Word ever-steady, unchanging. SaaDhoo Dhooree — the dust of the Holy's feet; deep humility. Nirbhai — fearless, rooted in sanctuary. Sahj — natural equilibrium. Faahaa kaati-aa — the noose cut. Gur parh-daa Dhaaki-aa — the Guru draws a veil over faults.
Themes and Cross-Connections
"Nirbhai" (P2) echoes "nirbhau" of the Mool Mantar: fearlessness as a fruit of belonging. "Sahj" (P3) is the ease of a heart lined up with the One, met throughout the raag. The closing "parh-daa Dhaaki-aa" is one of Gurbani's gentlest images of grace: shielding, like a blanket over a sleeping child.
For Raag Prabhaatee
The dawn raag's movement from dark water into safety recurs in P2's crossing, and the shabad ends with the noose of birth and death snapped.
Hukumnama
Subject: Humility sets you free Preview: a steady word, the dust of holy feet, rough water crossed, a noose cut, faults gently covered.
Today: Some things stay steady, forever. The Guru's word is one of them. Let it fill your mind, and pain runs off. Let love color you through, and you start to sing. Sit humbly with good people, and you are set free. You get carried across rough water. Fear, doubt and wrong turns fall away. You stand fearless in the One's shelter. Joy, ease and peace pile up. Enemies and pain keep their distance. The Guru makes you the Guru's own and keeps you safe. Friends and learners are lifted up together. The trap of being born and dying is cut. And the Guru gently covers your faults.
Love sets you singing, and humility sets you free.
For today: Today, learn one thing from someone else as a happy beginner.
Some true things stay steady through every wind, and grace gently covers your faults, like a blanket over a sleeping child.
The Arc
Some things stay steady, forever. The Guru's word is one of them. Let it fill your mind, and pain runs off. Let love color you through, and you start to sing. Sit humbly with good people, and you are set free. You get carried across rough water. Fear, doubt and wrong turns fall away. You stand fearless in the One's shelter. Joy, ease and peace pile up. Enemies and pain keep their distance. The Guru makes you the Guru's own and keeps you safe. Friends and learners are lifted up together. The trap of being born and dying is cut. And the Guru gently covers your faults. At the centre, the Rahao: love sets you singing, and humility sets you free.
Key Vocabulary
Sabad sadaa atlaa — the Word ever-steady, unchanging. SaaDhoo Dhooree — the dust of the Holy's feet; deep humility. Nirbhai — fearless, rooted in sanctuary. Sahj — natural equilibrium. Faahaa kaati-aa — the noose cut. Gur parh-daa Dhaaki-aa — the Guru draws a veil over faults.
Themes and Cross-Connections
"Nirbhai" (P2) echoes "nirbhau" of the Mool Mantar: fearlessness as a fruit of belonging. "Sahj" (P3) is the ease of a heart lined up with the One, met throughout the raag. The closing "parh-daa Dhaaki-aa" is one of Gurbani's gentlest images of grace: shielding, like a blanket over a sleeping child.
For Raag Prabhaatee
The dawn raag's movement from dark water into safety recurs in P2's crossing, and the shabad ends with the noose of birth and death snapped.
Hukumnama
Subject: Humility sets you free Preview: a steady word, the dust of holy feet, rough water crossed, a noose cut, faults gently covered.
Today: Some things stay steady, forever. The Guru's word is one of them. Let it fill your mind, and pain runs off. Let love color you through, and you start to sing. Sit humbly with good people, and you are set free. You get carried across rough water. Fear, doubt and wrong turns fall away. You stand fearless in the One's shelter. Joy, ease and peace pile up. Enemies and pain keep their distance. The Guru makes you the Guru's own and keeps you safe. Friends and learners are lifted up together. The trap of being born and dying is cut. And the Guru gently covers your faults.
Love sets you singing, and humility sets you free.
For today: Today, learn one thing from someone else as a happy beginner.