The One is the companion who stays; the five thieves only pretend.
The Arc
What are you leaning on as you move through this world? Who walks with you? The One is your only lasting companion, and no one can measure that One. Yet you treat the five thieves inside you as friends: anger, greed, clinging, pride and wanting. A life can slip away in ego and arguments. The taste of what harms you never fills you up. You wander and wander into deep pain, and the sea of Maya is too hard to cross. What you plant, you harvest. No one else can save you; you cross over when grace comes. The Naam makes the fallen clean. Ask for that gift, and hold on to the One's shelter. At the centre, the Rahao: serve the home that carries you across, and love the One in the Sangat.
Key Vocabulary
panch batvaaray — the five thieves; inner tendencies that rob you.
bikhi-aa saad — the flavor of harm, which never satisfies.
aap beej aapay khaavai — you eat what you plant (karma).
patit puneet — the purifier of the fallen.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The 'five thieves' mistaken for friends is a vivid picture of how harmful habits disguise themselves as comforts. 'You eat what you plant' sits right beside 'you cross when grace comes': effort and grace held together. Patit puneet, the purifier of the fallen, is a name Gurbani returns to again and again.
For Raag Raamkalee
Companionship, refuge and the crossing are Raamkalee themes, and here they all point to the shelter of the One.
Hukumnama
Subject: Serve the home that carries you across Preview: Five thieves posing as friends, a taste that never fills you up, a hard sea, and the seed and its harvest.
Today: What are you leaning on as you move through this world? Who walks with you? The One is your only lasting companion, and no one can measure that One. Yet you treat the five thieves inside you as friends: anger, greed, clinging, pride and wanting. A life can slip away in ego and arguments. The taste of what harms you never fills you up. You wander and wander into deep pain, and the sea of Maya is too hard to cross. What you plant, you harvest. No one else can save you; you cross over when grace comes. The Naam makes the fallen clean. Ask for that gift, and hold on to the One's shelter.
Serve the home that carries you across, and love the One in the Sangat.
For today: Spend ten minutes today with people who help you remember the One.
The One is the companion who stays; the five thieves only pretend.
The Arc
What are you leaning on as you move through this world? Who walks with you? The One is your only lasting companion, and no one can measure that One. Yet you treat the five thieves inside you as friends: anger, greed, clinging, pride and wanting. A life can slip away in ego and arguments. The taste of what harms you never fills you up. You wander and wander into deep pain, and the sea of Maya is too hard to cross. What you plant, you harvest. No one else can save you; you cross over when grace comes. The Naam makes the fallen clean. Ask for that gift, and hold on to the One's shelter. At the centre, the Rahao: serve the home that carries you across, and love the One in the Sangat.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The 'five thieves' mistaken for friends is a vivid picture of how harmful habits disguise themselves as comforts. 'You eat what you plant' sits right beside 'you cross when grace comes': effort and grace held together. Patit puneet, the purifier of the fallen, is a name Gurbani returns to again and again.
For Raag Raamkalee
Companionship, refuge and the crossing are Raamkalee themes, and here they all point to the shelter of the One.
Hukumnama
Subject: Serve the home that carries you across Preview: Five thieves posing as friends, a taste that never fills you up, a hard sea, and the seed and its harvest.
Today: What are you leaning on as you move through this world? Who walks with you? The One is your only lasting companion, and no one can measure that One. Yet you treat the five thieves inside you as friends: anger, greed, clinging, pride and wanting. A life can slip away in ego and arguments. The taste of what harms you never fills you up. You wander and wander into deep pain, and the sea of Maya is too hard to cross. What you plant, you harvest. No one else can save you; you cross over when grace comes. The Naam makes the fallen clean. Ask for that gift, and hold on to the One's shelter.
Serve the home that carries you across, and love the One in the Sangat.
For today: Spend ten minutes today with people who help you remember the One.