The real yogi's ear-rings are worn in the mind, the real loin-cloth is a settled heart, and the real feast is the Name, the whole costume of the seeker becomes an inner life.
The Arc
The culminating yogi-hymn of the set: piece by piece, the entire yogic costume is re-worn as an inner virtue.
Verse 1 (P0): chasing only food and clothes leaves the hunger unsettled; follow the teaching and devotion grows.
The Rahau (P1): the yogi's true home is settled peace; he sees the one Light in all, and love is his nourishment.
Verse 2 (P2): the body is a wagon pulled by five bulls; the One's power keeps it whole, and one day it sets down.
Verse 3 (P3): hold the teaching until joy and sorrow rest the same; let your feast be the Name, your house unshakable on the formless One.
Verse 4 (P4): wear poise as your cloth, let the teaching melt anger and craving, wear your ear-rings in the mind, and the humble are carried across.
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 project. 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.
Translation Notes
Full yogic costume reinterpreted:mundraa (ear-rings) worn in the mind sheltering in the One; jagotaa (loin-cloth) as poise; bhugat (feast) as the Name; the "wall/house" built on nirankaar (the formless Oneness).
Equal vision foregrounded (P1):ek darisat (looking equally on all) rendered as seeing the one Light in everyone, a quiet leveling of rank.
Wellbeing (P0): "suffering in the hereafter" dropped; durmat (evil-mindedness) softened to "losing our way."
Memento mori softened (P2): the wagon crashing "like a pile of logs" rendered as the wagon gently setting down when its journey is done, with trust placed in the One's power.
sahaj glossed per the philosophy lens as natural, settled ease.
The real yogi's ear-rings are worn in the mind, the real loin-cloth is a settled heart, and the real feast is the Name, the whole costume of the seeker becomes an inner life.
The Arc
The culminating yogi-hymn of the set: piece by piece, the entire yogic costume is re-worn as an inner virtue.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
This hymn completes Raamkalee's central project. 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.
Translation Notes
Last updated: 2026-07-09