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The ideal time to recite this raag is in the evening hours… This raag is said to have its origins in southern India. Guru Ramdas ji says: Ang 1294 The mind roams and rambles in all directions. Meeting the holy the mind is brought under control. Then Guru ji gives the example…. Just as the […]

The ideal time to recite this raag is in the evening hours…

This raag is said to have its origins in southern India.

Guru Ramdas ji says:

Ang 1294
The mind roams and rambles in all directions. Meeting the holy the mind is brought under control. Then Guru ji gives the example…. Just as the fisherman spreads his net over the water, he overpowers and catches the fish. ….meeting with the holy, the mind’s vices are brought under control.

In this painting…

The five fish are representing the five vices within …lust, anger, greed, worldly attachment and ego.
Just as the fisherman’s net catches the fish, in the same way Guru ji tells us that the net of good company subdues and controls these five vices within.

The curling waters around the fish…suggest a struggle….like the fish, the vices within do not give up so quickly. The waves around the fish suggest this internal struggle before the vices within can be brought under control.

The Guru gives advice to consider the importance of good SANGAT….good company.

~ Dr Navjeet Kaur