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The Morning Hukam:
A Meditation
Sunday, July 28, 2013
INNI KAUR
Today’s Hukam, Darbar Sahib, Amritsar - Sunday, July 28, 2013
After wandering through births galore, I have come to Your sanctuary. Save me -- lift my body up, out of the deep, dark pit of the world, and attach me to Your feet. || 1 || Pause||
I do not know anything about spiritual wisdom, meditation or karam, and my way of life is not clean and pure. Please attach me to the hem of the saadh sangat's robe; help me to cross over the terrible river. || 1 ||
Comforts, riches and the sweet pleasures of Maya, -- do not implant these in my mind. Slave Nanak is satisfied and satiated by the Your blessed vision; his only ornamentation is the love of Your Name. || 2 || 8 || 12 ||
[Guru Arjan, Raag Jaitsree, GGS:702]
Today’s Hukam reaches my core…
I wandered
I searched
I drifted
Wasted lifetimes
I reflect
Essential process
Layers stripped
Intense pain
Loving surrender
Cooling Hand
Gurbani nurtures
Gurbani protects
I yearn
The jewel
Naam
The journey is the destination …
July 29, 2013
Conversation about this article
1: Ajit Singh Batra (Pennsville, New Jersey, USA.), July 29, 2013, 4:26 PM.
Gurbani nurtures and gurbani protects. The end result is naam simran. Guru Amar Das, GGS:644 - "sabday hee naa-o oopjai sabday mayl milaa-i-aa || bin sabday sabh jag ba-uraanaa birthaa janam gavaa-i-aa"|| That is, gurbani originates naam simran which entails reunion with Waheguru. Without gurbani the world goes mad and wastes away the gift of life. Gurbani and naam have been identified to the extent that gurbani is nothing but the concrete expression of naam.
2: Sangat Singh (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ), July 29, 2013, 8:27 PM.
Inni ji: What a lovely, heartfelt rendering in English. "charn chalo maarag gobind" [GGS:281.8] - "Take your feet on the path of the Lord."