The hearer has heard, and enshrined it in the mind; this is the essence.
The Arc
Maya, the trapper, sets her trap, and the Guru puts out the fire. Get to know your own mind, from your toes to the top of your head, and take your bath inside. Turn away from chasing things, and you find steady support. Go into the wide sky of the mind, open the door of inner seeing, and meet your King without fear. The cool moon swallows the hot sun: calm takes in the restless heat, and a music no one plays begins to sound. Someone speaks the Word. You hear it and keep it in your mind. Turn to the Creator, and you cross over. At the centre, the Rahao: a mind at rest in the highest joy is free from death, birth and growing old.
Key Vocabulary
Antar majan — the true bath, taken deep within
Pavan-pat — the mind, master of the breath
Unman — supreme, thoughtless bliss
Ultee — the inward 'turning,' the key move of the ulat-baasee
Anhad-beenaa — the unstruck flute, inner music
Suniai and Mannai — deep listening and inner alignment
Themes and Cross-Connections
The inner bath sits beside the pilgrim's river bath: what washes the heart clean happens inside. The final verse matches two words from Japji Sahib: Suniai (deep listening) and Mannai (taking the truth into the heart and living from it). 'Meeting without fear' echoes nirbhau, the Fearless, from the opening of Sikh scripture.
For Raag Raamkalee
Raamkalee is the raag of yogis, and this Ghar 2 shabad speaks their kundalini language most fully — the inner sky, the turning of energy, the unstruck sound — all bent toward a fearless meeting with the One.
Hukumnama
Subject: A mind at rest in joy is free from time Preview: a sprung trap, a bath taken inside, the sky of the mind, the moon swallowing the sun, an unstruck flute
Today: Maya, the trapper, sets her trap, and the Guru puts out the fire. Get to know your own mind, from your toes to the top of your head, and take your bath inside. Turn away from chasing things, and you find steady support. Go into the wide sky of the mind, open the door of inner seeing, and meet your King without fear. The cool moon swallows the hot sun: calm takes in the restless heat, and a music no one plays begins to sound. Someone speaks the Word. You hear it and keep it in your mind. Turn to the Creator, and you cross over.
A mind resting in the highest joy is free from death, birth and growing old.
For today: Sit still for one minute today and listen for the quiet inside you.
The hearer has heard, and enshrined it in the mind; this is the essence.
The Arc
Maya, the trapper, sets her trap, and the Guru puts out the fire. Get to know your own mind, from your toes to the top of your head, and take your bath inside. Turn away from chasing things, and you find steady support. Go into the wide sky of the mind, open the door of inner seeing, and meet your King without fear. The cool moon swallows the hot sun: calm takes in the restless heat, and a music no one plays begins to sound. Someone speaks the Word. You hear it and keep it in your mind. Turn to the Creator, and you cross over. At the centre, the Rahao: a mind at rest in the highest joy is free from death, birth and growing old.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The inner bath sits beside the pilgrim's river bath: what washes the heart clean happens inside. The final verse matches two words from Japji Sahib: Suniai (deep listening) and Mannai (taking the truth into the heart and living from it). 'Meeting without fear' echoes nirbhau, the Fearless, from the opening of Sikh scripture.
For Raag Raamkalee
Raamkalee is the raag of yogis, and this Ghar 2 shabad speaks their kundalini language most fully — the inner sky, the turning of energy, the unstruck sound — all bent toward a fearless meeting with the One.
Hukumnama
Subject: A mind at rest in joy is free from time Preview: a sprung trap, a bath taken inside, the sky of the mind, the moon swallowing the sun, an unstruck flute
Today: Maya, the trapper, sets her trap, and the Guru puts out the fire. Get to know your own mind, from your toes to the top of your head, and take your bath inside. Turn away from chasing things, and you find steady support. Go into the wide sky of the mind, open the door of inner seeing, and meet your King without fear. The cool moon swallows the hot sun: calm takes in the restless heat, and a music no one plays begins to sound. Someone speaks the Word. You hear it and keep it in your mind. Turn to the Creator, and you cross over.
A mind resting in the highest joy is free from death, birth and growing old.
For today: Sit still for one minute today and listen for the quiet inside you.