Raag Saarang, Shabad 175, Bhagat Sur Daas (with Guru Arjan, Mehl 5)
Keep close to what lifts you, the One has taken my heart into its own hands.
The Arc
The people around you shape you. Spend an afternoon with someone who complains about everything, and you come home grumpy. Spend it with someone kind, and you feel lighter. The people who love the One live close to the One. They give themselves fully, and a quiet joy runs through them like music. Being near the One washes the heavy stuff off. You stop needing so many other things. Chasing lesser things is like drinking soda when you are thirsty; you end up thirstier. Put your heart in the One's hands. It is safe there. At the centre, the Rahao: the One's people living with the One, carried by a joyful, easy music.
Key Vocabulary
Bimukhan — those turned away from the One. Sahaj — natural, joyful ease. Darshan — the blessing of gazing on and being seen by the One. Nirbikhaee — cleansed, made clear.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shaping power of company; darshan as cleansing and fulfilling; and single-hearted love of the beautiful One. Its warmth sits close to the Naam Dayv and Kabir hymns around it in the block.
For Raag Saarang
The longing finds its object in the beauty of the One and its safety in the company that keeps it near.
Translation Notes
The heading reads saarang mehlaa 5 soordaas. By tradition the single opening line, chhaad man har bimukhan ko sang, is preserved from Bhagat Sur Daas, and Guru Arjan (the Fifth Guru, Mehl 5) composed the shabad that completes it; the closing verse names soordaas. The Rahao comes in the opening verse. The call to leave the company of those turned away from the One is a call to choose company that lifts you. The leech clinging to a sick body pictures how chasing lesser things drains a person.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One's people live with the One Preview: people living beside the One, a heart washed clean, a beautiful face, and a heart held in the One's hands.
Today: The people around you shape you. Spend an afternoon with someone who complains about everything, and you come home grumpy. Spend it with someone kind, and you feel lighter. The people who love the One live close to the One. They give themselves fully, and a quiet joy runs through them like music. Being near the One washes the heavy stuff off. You stop needing so many other things. Chasing lesser things is like drinking soda when you are thirsty; you end up thirstier. Put your heart in the One's hands. It is safe there.
The One's people live with the One, and so can you.
For today: Spend time today with someone who leaves you kinder, and tell them so.
Keep close to what lifts you, the One has taken my heart into its own hands.
The Arc
The people around you shape you. Spend an afternoon with someone who complains about everything, and you come home grumpy. Spend it with someone kind, and you feel lighter. The people who love the One live close to the One. They give themselves fully, and a quiet joy runs through them like music. Being near the One washes the heavy stuff off. You stop needing so many other things. Chasing lesser things is like drinking soda when you are thirsty; you end up thirstier. Put your heart in the One's hands. It is safe there. At the centre, the Rahao: the One's people living with the One, carried by a joyful, easy music.
Key Vocabulary
Bimukhan — those turned away from the One. Sahaj — natural, joyful ease. Darshan — the blessing of gazing on and being seen by the One. Nirbikhaee — cleansed, made clear.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shaping power of company; darshan as cleansing and fulfilling; and single-hearted love of the beautiful One. Its warmth sits close to the Naam Dayv and Kabir hymns around it in the block.
For Raag Saarang
The longing finds its object in the beauty of the One and its safety in the company that keeps it near.
Translation Notes
The heading reads saarang mehlaa 5 soordaas. By tradition the single opening line, chhaad man har bimukhan ko sang, is preserved from Bhagat Sur Daas, and Guru Arjan (the Fifth Guru, Mehl 5) composed the shabad that completes it; the closing verse names soordaas. The Rahao comes in the opening verse. The call to leave the company of those turned away from the One is a call to choose company that lifts you. The leech clinging to a sick body pictures how chasing lesser things drains a person.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One's people live with the One Preview: people living beside the One, a heart washed clean, a beautiful face, and a heart held in the One's hands.
Today: The people around you shape you. Spend an afternoon with someone who complains about everything, and you come home grumpy. Spend it with someone kind, and you feel lighter. The people who love the One live close to the One. They give themselves fully, and a quiet joy runs through them like music. Being near the One washes the heavy stuff off. You stop needing so many other things. Chasing lesser things is like drinking soda when you are thirsty; you end up thirstier. Put your heart in the One's hands. It is safe there.
The One's people live with the One, and so can you.
For today: Spend time today with someone who leaves you kinder, and tell them so.