Meet the One and pride dissolves; then you see the One in all.
The Arc
Give yourself gladly to the sight of the One. Rest your heart's attention at the One's lotus feet. Touch the dust of the saints' feet to your forehead, and grime built up over many lifetimes washes off. Praising the Guru means repeating the Naam. Loving the Guru means singing the One's goodness. Thinking on the Guru means knowing the One is close by. Take the Guru's word as true. Then good days and hard days weigh the same, and wanting loses its grip. Your mind grows content, and the One covers your faults. The Guru is the Giver, kind and forgiving. Holding on to the Guru's feet is the best fortune there is. At the centre, the Rahao: meet the One, and pride melts away until you see the One in everyone.
Key Vocabulary
abhimaan — pride, erased in meeting.
nikat — near; the One is close, not distant.
samsar sukh dookh — pleasure and pain held as equal.
bakhsind — the forgiving One.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Four devotional acts (praise, devotion, contemplation, accepting the word) are given in the simplest inward terms. Nikat (nearness) answers any picture of a distant deity. 'The One covers every fault' and bakhsind (forgiving) keep the tone merciful, and samsar sukh dookh names sahaj, the steady calm that good and hard days cannot shake.
For Raag Raamkalee
Raamkalee often speaks to yogis who withdraw from the world; here contemplation is knowing the One is near, right where you are.
Hukumnama
Subject: Meet the One and pride melts away Preview: Saints' dust on the forehead, the One close at hand, and good days and hard days weighing the same.
Today: Give yourself gladly to the sight of the One. Rest your heart's attention at the One's lotus feet. Touch the dust of the saints' feet to your forehead, and grime built up over many lifetimes washes off. Praising the Guru means repeating the Naam. Loving the Guru means singing the One's goodness. Thinking on the Guru means knowing the One is close by. Take the Guru's word as true. Then good days and hard days weigh the same, and wanting loses its grip. Your mind grows content, and the One covers your faults. The Guru is the Giver, kind and forgiving. Holding on to the Guru's feet is the best fortune there is.
Meet the One, and pride melts away until you see the One in everyone.
For today: Look for one good thing in someone you usually find hard to like.
Meet the One and pride dissolves; then you see the One in all.
The Arc
Give yourself gladly to the sight of the One. Rest your heart's attention at the One's lotus feet. Touch the dust of the saints' feet to your forehead, and grime built up over many lifetimes washes off. Praising the Guru means repeating the Naam. Loving the Guru means singing the One's goodness. Thinking on the Guru means knowing the One is close by. Take the Guru's word as true. Then good days and hard days weigh the same, and wanting loses its grip. Your mind grows content, and the One covers your faults. The Guru is the Giver, kind and forgiving. Holding on to the Guru's feet is the best fortune there is. At the centre, the Rahao: meet the One, and pride melts away until you see the One in everyone.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Four devotional acts (praise, devotion, contemplation, accepting the word) are given in the simplest inward terms. Nikat (nearness) answers any picture of a distant deity. 'The One covers every fault' and bakhsind (forgiving) keep the tone merciful, and samsar sukh dookh names sahaj, the steady calm that good and hard days cannot shake.
For Raag Raamkalee
Raamkalee often speaks to yogis who withdraw from the world; here contemplation is knowing the One is near, right where you are.
Hukumnama
Subject: Meet the One and pride melts away Preview: Saints' dust on the forehead, the One close at hand, and good days and hard days weighing the same.
Today: Give yourself gladly to the sight of the One. Rest your heart's attention at the One's lotus feet. Touch the dust of the saints' feet to your forehead, and grime built up over many lifetimes washes off. Praising the Guru means repeating the Naam. Loving the Guru means singing the One's goodness. Thinking on the Guru means knowing the One is close by. Take the Guru's word as true. Then good days and hard days weigh the same, and wanting loses its grip. Your mind grows content, and the One covers your faults. The Guru is the Giver, kind and forgiving. Holding on to the Guru's feet is the best fortune there is.
Meet the One, and pride melts away until you see the One in everyone.
For today: Look for one good thing in someone you usually find hard to like.