A mind at home in the One stays steady through every coming and going.
The Arc
Good things come, and you don't get carried away. They go, and you don't fall apart. A steady mind is a healthy mind. Finding the Perfect Guru, you feel a joy that lasts, and the ache of being far from the One ends. Clinging, sadness, sickness and worry about what people think lose their grip. You feel clean wherever you are, and everywhere you look you see the One. Past wind, water and every shape is where the One lives. Your body, your mind and everything you own belong to the One. "Mine" and "yours" wash away, like water poured into water. At the centre, the Rahao: this is how the mind is joined to the One, and nothing can grab hold of it.
Key Vocabulary
man jognee — the mind joined to the One; a "yoga" of the heart.
rognee — the mind's sickness of ups and downs, here healed.
log — public opinion; freedom from crowd-fear.
aagi-aakaaree — living in step with the flow of existence.
avigat / agam — the unmanifest, unapproachable One.
ambhai ambh — water blended into water; oneness.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Guru Arjan borrows the yogis' own words — jog, naath, union — and moves them inward. The union is not with a posture or a breath technique but with the One, and its fruit is equanimity: steadiness through arrival and loss, freedom from the tyranny of "what will people think." The shabad ends in the great image of the drop merging into the sea.
For Raag Raamkalee
The raag of yogis is here given a yoga of the heart. Where the yogi withdraws to a mountain beyond wind and water, Guru Arjan finds that same still ground inside a mind that has stopped clinging.
Hukumnama
Subject: A mind joined to the One stays free Preview: Things coming and going, a crowd's opinion, a place past wind and water, and water poured into water.
Today: Good things come, and you don't get carried away. They go, and you don't fall apart. A steady mind is a healthy mind. Finding the Perfect Guru, you feel a joy that lasts, and the ache of being far from the One ends. Clinging, sadness, sickness and worry about what people think lose their grip. You feel clean wherever you are, and everywhere you look you see the One. Past wind, water and every shape is where the One lives. Your body, your mind and everything you own belong to the One. "Mine" and "yours" wash away, like water poured into water.
This is how the mind is joined to the One, and nothing can grab hold of it.
For today: When something you like ends today, take one slow breath and let it go with a thank-you.
A mind at home in the One stays steady through every coming and going.
The Arc
Good things come, and you don't get carried away. They go, and you don't fall apart. A steady mind is a healthy mind. Finding the Perfect Guru, you feel a joy that lasts, and the ache of being far from the One ends. Clinging, sadness, sickness and worry about what people think lose their grip. You feel clean wherever you are, and everywhere you look you see the One. Past wind, water and every shape is where the One lives. Your body, your mind and everything you own belong to the One. "Mine" and "yours" wash away, like water poured into water. At the centre, the Rahao: this is how the mind is joined to the One, and nothing can grab hold of it.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Guru Arjan borrows the yogis' own words — jog, naath, union — and moves them inward. The union is not with a posture or a breath technique but with the One, and its fruit is equanimity: steadiness through arrival and loss, freedom from the tyranny of "what will people think." The shabad ends in the great image of the drop merging into the sea.
For Raag Raamkalee
The raag of yogis is here given a yoga of the heart. Where the yogi withdraws to a mountain beyond wind and water, Guru Arjan finds that same still ground inside a mind that has stopped clinging.
Hukumnama
Subject: A mind joined to the One stays free Preview: Things coming and going, a crowd's opinion, a place past wind and water, and water poured into water.
Today: Good things come, and you don't get carried away. They go, and you don't fall apart. A steady mind is a healthy mind. Finding the Perfect Guru, you feel a joy that lasts, and the ache of being far from the One ends. Clinging, sadness, sickness and worry about what people think lose their grip. You feel clean wherever you are, and everywhere you look you see the One. Past wind, water and every shape is where the One lives. Your body, your mind and everything you own belong to the One. "Mine" and "yours" wash away, like water poured into water.
This is how the mind is joined to the One, and nothing can grab hold of it.
For today: When something you like ends today, take one slow breath and let it go with a thank-you.