Ill-will harms the one who carries it; the One holds close those who serve.
The Arc
Look at the people and the money you love. None of it comes with you when you go. The world's shine works like a drink that fogs your head, and you lose your way. Running other people down ruins you. What you do stays with you and comes back around. Lies, and saying one thing while doing another, make the heart sick, and your wanting is never full. Then the warmth: the One shapes the saints, gives them life, and hugs them close. So you can ask too: be kind to me as well. At the centre, the Rahao: whatever pleases the One comes to be, so rest in the One's shelter.
Key Vocabulary
Jo tis bhaavai so thee-aa: whatever pleases the One happens (Hukam, the flow of existence). Thag-uree: a drugged drink that fogs the mind. Nindaa: slander, running others down. Asaadh rog: a sickness no ordinary medicine can cure. Kanth laa-ay raakhay: the One hugs close.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Resting in Hukam; what cannot be taken along; slander as harm to the one who speaks it; ego and ill-will as sickness of the heart; the One's embrace and an open, humble prayer for kindness.
For Raag Raamkalee
Raamkalee can hold sober self-examination as well as joy; this shabad uses both, ending in the raag's warmer register.
Hukumnama
Subject: Whatever pleases the One comes to be Preview: a fogging drink, houses left behind, a sickness no medicine cures, and a warm embrace.
Today: Look at the people and the money you love. None of it comes with you when you go. The world's shine works like a drink that fogs your head, and you lose your way. Running other people down ruins you. What you do stays with you and comes back around. Lies, and saying one thing while doing another, make the heart sick, and your wanting is never full. Then the warmth: the One shapes the saints, gives them life, and hugs them close. So you can ask too: be kind to me as well.
Whatever pleases the One comes to be, so rest in the One's shelter.
For today: When you feel like saying something unkind about someone, say one good thing about them instead.
Ill-will harms the one who carries it; the One holds close those who serve.
The Arc
Look at the people and the money you love. None of it comes with you when you go. The world's shine works like a drink that fogs your head, and you lose your way. Running other people down ruins you. What you do stays with you and comes back around. Lies, and saying one thing while doing another, make the heart sick, and your wanting is never full. Then the warmth: the One shapes the saints, gives them life, and hugs them close. So you can ask too: be kind to me as well. At the centre, the Rahao: whatever pleases the One comes to be, so rest in the One's shelter.
Key Vocabulary
Jo tis bhaavai so thee-aa: whatever pleases the One happens (Hukam, the flow of existence). Thag-uree: a drugged drink that fogs the mind. Nindaa: slander, running others down. Asaadh rog: a sickness no ordinary medicine can cure. Kanth laa-ay raakhay: the One hugs close.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Resting in Hukam; what cannot be taken along; slander as harm to the one who speaks it; ego and ill-will as sickness of the heart; the One's embrace and an open, humble prayer for kindness.
For Raag Raamkalee
Raamkalee can hold sober self-examination as well as joy; this shabad uses both, ending in the raag's warmer register.
Hukumnama
Subject: Whatever pleases the One comes to be Preview: a fogging drink, houses left behind, a sickness no medicine cures, and a warm embrace.
Today: Look at the people and the money you love. None of it comes with you when you go. The world's shine works like a drink that fogs your head, and you lose your way. Running other people down ruins you. What you do stays with you and comes back around. Lies, and saying one thing while doing another, make the heart sick, and your wanting is never full. Then the warmth: the One shapes the saints, gives them life, and hugs them close. So you can ask too: be kind to me as well.
Whatever pleases the One comes to be, so rest in the One's shelter.
For today: When you feel like saying something unkind about someone, say one good thing about them instead.