There is a music no one has to play — and a home no map can find.
The Arc
Close your eyes and listen past the noise. There is a music inside that no one has to play, wondrous and amazing. Holy people play there, close to the One and free. Only a few find this place of rest. Love is their food. Singing is what holds them up. Nobody stumbles there or runs off somewhere else. Doubt, fear, clinging and the traps of wanting cannot grab hold. You don't get there by pushing. It comes as a gift, through the Guru. The One has no edge, hidden and also showing itself as the whole world. Taste that sweetness inside, and words run out. At the centre, the Rahao: where the Sangat sits and sings, there is peace and joy, and no sickness or sorrow.
The inner realm as a state, not a place; grace as the only door; wonder at the edge of language, the same awe folded into the word Waheguru.
For Raag Raamkalee
Raamkalee has deep associations with yogic and contemplative practice (later in the raag come the Sidh Gosht and Dakhnee Onkaar). This shabad's inner-sound imagery sits squarely in that contemplative stream.
Hukumnama
Subject: Where the Sangat sings, there is peace Preview: a music no one has to play, love for food, song for support, and a steady seat that never wavers.
Today: Close your eyes and listen past the noise. There is a music inside that no one has to play, wondrous and amazing. Holy people play there, close to the One and free. Only a few find this place of rest. Love is their food. Singing is what holds them up. Nobody stumbles there or runs off somewhere else. Doubt, fear, clinging and the traps of wanting cannot grab hold. You don't get there by pushing. It comes as a gift, through the Guru. The One has no edge, hidden and also showing itself as the whole world. Taste that sweetness inside, and words run out.
Where the Sangat sits and sings together, there is peace and joy.
For today: Sing or listen to one shabad today with your family, all together.
There is a music no one has to play — and a home no map can find.
The Arc
Close your eyes and listen past the noise. There is a music inside that no one has to play, wondrous and amazing. Holy people play there, close to the One and free. Only a few find this place of rest. Love is their food. Singing is what holds them up. Nobody stumbles there or runs off somewhere else. Doubt, fear, clinging and the traps of wanting cannot grab hold. You don't get there by pushing. It comes as a gift, through the Guru. The One has no edge, hidden and also showing itself as the whole world. Taste that sweetness inside, and words run out. At the centre, the Rahao: where the Sangat sits and sings, there is peace and joy, and no sickness or sorrow.
Key Vocabulary
panch shabad — five primal sounds; anhad naad — unstruck melody; nirjog — utterly unattached; sunn samaadh — the deep, empty stillness; bismaad — wonder; gupat/paasaar — hidden / the visible expanse.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The inner realm as a state, not a place; grace as the only door; wonder at the edge of language, the same awe folded into the word Waheguru.
For Raag Raamkalee
Raamkalee has deep associations with yogic and contemplative practice (later in the raag come the Sidh Gosht and Dakhnee Onkaar). This shabad's inner-sound imagery sits squarely in that contemplative stream.
Hukumnama
Subject: Where the Sangat sings, there is peace Preview: a music no one has to play, love for food, song for support, and a steady seat that never wavers.
Today: Close your eyes and listen past the noise. There is a music inside that no one has to play, wondrous and amazing. Holy people play there, close to the One and free. Only a few find this place of rest. Love is their food. Singing is what holds them up. Nobody stumbles there or runs off somewhere else. Doubt, fear, clinging and the traps of wanting cannot grab hold. You don't get there by pushing. It comes as a gift, through the Guru. The One has no edge, hidden and also showing itself as the whole world. Taste that sweetness inside, and words run out.
Where the Sangat sits and sings together, there is peace and joy.
For today: Sing or listen to one shabad today with your family, all together.