The HU (HOOOO) Chant of Hazrat Sultan BaHU
Sultan Bahu (1628 –1691) was a Sufi Master of the Light and Sound of God (Qadriya Sufi Order) who lived in northern India.
There are two books that have been published in English making this wonderful poetry of Sultan BaHU available in our part of the world, and they mention this sacred word spelled “HU”:
1) “Death Before Dying – The Sufi Poems of Sultan Bahu,” Translated by Jamal J. Elias, University of California Press;
2) “Sultan Bahu,” Translated by J.R. Puri, Published by Radha Soami Books, and it has many references to the sacred name HU as well as Inner Sound and Light Meditation. It’s not available through bookstores but through:
Science of the Soul/RS Books: ScienceOfTheSoul.org
The following ecstatic poems, translated from Punjabi, sometimes contain the word “HU,” a name for God and the Audible Life Stream, the Sound of the upper worlds.
In most all of his poems, in the original language every other line hypnotically ends with a HOO, for example:
akkheen surkh te mooheen zardee,
har wallon dil aaheen HOO
Muhaa muhaar khushboi waalaa,
pahuntaa vanj kadaaeen HOO
Ishq mushk na chhuppe raihnde,
zaahir theen uthaaeen HOO
Naam faqeer tinhaan daa Baahoo,
jin laamakaanee jaaeen HOO
The name ‘Bahu’ means, 'with God.’
Then, in an ecstasy of love,
you will repeat the Name of HU constantly,
devoting every breath of your life
in contemplation of Him.
Only when your soul merges
in the Essence of the Lord,
will you deserve the name 'Bahu.’
HU is within, HU is without,
HU pervades everything;
where then is Bahu to find HU [Positive Power-Allah, God]?
He has wounded his own heart,
he has tortured his own soul
with austerities of all manner,
with worship of all kinds.
Having read millions of books,
he has also come to be called 'wise.’
But the name 'faqir’ befits only him, O Bahu,
whose very grave breathes life!
Mystics live in this world as HU personified;
they practice the Name that is the essence of God.
They live in HU –
beyond religion,
beyond belief and unbelief,
beyond life and death.
If you explore the Path within yourself,
you will find God nearby, through the Royal Vein.
He now lives in me and I in Him, O Bahu:
not only distance from Him
but even nearness to Him
have become irrelevant!
HU is within, HU is without,
HU always reverberates in my heart.
The wound in my heart aches constantly
with the unabating pain of HU’s love.
The darkness of ignorance departs
from the heart lit by HU [God, Positive Power, Allah].
I sacrifice myself to the one, O Bahu,
who has realized the significance of HU.