A yogi's ear-rings are worn in the mind, the loin-cloth is a settled heart, and the feast is the Naam: the seeker's whole costume becomes an inner life.
The Arc
Some people spend their days chasing the next meal and the next outfit, and the hunger inside never settles. The Guru's teaching is what feeds it. Your body is like a wagon pulled by five bulls, your senses. The One's power keeps your honor safe, and one day the axle breaks and the wagon comes apart. So think on the Guru's Word. Hold good days and hard days with the same calm. Let the Naam be your meal and a calm heart be your clothes. Wear your earrings in your mind, resting in the One. Then craving and anger lose their grip. At the centre, the Rahao: a yogi's true way is to live in settled peace, see everyone with the same eyes, and be filled by love and the Word.
Key Vocabulary
sahaj — natural, settled ease.
ek darisat — the equal gaze, the one Light in all.
panch bail — the five senses as bulls drawing the body-wagon.
bhugat — the yogi's ritual feast; here, the Name.
jagotaa — loin-cloth; mundraa — the Naths' ear-rings, here worn in the mind; nirankaar — the formless Oneness.
Themes and Cross-Connections
This hymn completes Raamkalee's central theme. Where the earlier hymns turned the horn, bowl, and ash inward, this one finishes the costume: mundraa (ear-rings), jagotaa (loin-cloth), bhugat (the feast), and the yogi's very house all become inner qualities. Sahaj (natural settled ease) is the thread, the poise of a heart no longer fighting its own nature.
For Raag Raamkalee
As the last of Guru Nanak's Chaupadas here, it seals the raag's method: true yoga is not a costume but a way of being, at home in sahaj, seeing one Light in all, feeding on the Name.
Hukumnama
Subject: A true yogi lives in settled peace Preview: five bulls pulling a wagon, a feast of the Naam, a calm heart for clothes, and earrings worn in the mind.
Today: Some people spend their days chasing the next meal and the next outfit, and the hunger inside never settles. The Guru's teaching is what feeds it. Your body is like a wagon pulled by five bulls, your senses. The One's power keeps your honor safe, and one day the axle breaks and the wagon comes apart. So think on the Guru's Word. Hold good days and hard days with the same calm. Let the Naam be your meal and a calm heart be your clothes. Wear your earrings in your mind, resting in the One. Then craving and anger lose their grip.
A true yogi lives in settled peace, sees one Light in everyone, and is filled by love and the Word.
For today: Look at each person you meet today with the same kind eyes.
A yogi's ear-rings are worn in the mind, the loin-cloth is a settled heart, and the feast is the Naam: the seeker's whole costume becomes an inner life.
The Arc
Some people spend their days chasing the next meal and the next outfit, and the hunger inside never settles. The Guru's teaching is what feeds it. Your body is like a wagon pulled by five bulls, your senses. The One's power keeps your honor safe, and one day the axle breaks and the wagon comes apart. So think on the Guru's Word. Hold good days and hard days with the same calm. Let the Naam be your meal and a calm heart be your clothes. Wear your earrings in your mind, resting in the One. Then craving and anger lose their grip. At the centre, the Rahao: a yogi's true way is to live in settled peace, see everyone with the same eyes, and be filled by love and the Word.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
This hymn completes Raamkalee's central theme. Where the earlier hymns turned the horn, bowl, and ash inward, this one finishes the costume: mundraa (ear-rings), jagotaa (loin-cloth), bhugat (the feast), and the yogi's very house all become inner qualities. Sahaj (natural settled ease) is the thread, the poise of a heart no longer fighting its own nature.
For Raag Raamkalee
As the last of Guru Nanak's Chaupadas here, it seals the raag's method: true yoga is not a costume but a way of being, at home in sahaj, seeing one Light in all, feeding on the Name.
Hukumnama
Subject: A true yogi lives in settled peace Preview: five bulls pulling a wagon, a feast of the Naam, a calm heart for clothes, and earrings worn in the mind.
Today: Some people spend their days chasing the next meal and the next outfit, and the hunger inside never settles. The Guru's teaching is what feeds it. Your body is like a wagon pulled by five bulls, your senses. The One's power keeps your honor safe, and one day the axle breaks and the wagon comes apart. So think on the Guru's Word. Hold good days and hard days with the same calm. Let the Naam be your meal and a calm heart be your clothes. Wear your earrings in your mind, resting in the One. Then craving and anger lose their grip.
A true yogi lives in settled peace, sees one Light in everyone, and is filled by love and the Word.
For today: Look at each person you meet today with the same kind eyes.