Poetry
Saadh Sangat
A Poem by INNI KAUR
An assembly of people
Satiated with materialism
Is not the sangat
That I seek.
I long for that sangat
Where my individuality disappears
And I beam
The image of the sangat.
I long for that sangat
Where the I disappears
And Grace
Permeates my being.
All in the One
The One in all.
Is the Sadh Sangat
I ache for.
April 10, 2010
Conversation about this article
1: Sangat Singh (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), April 10, 2010, 8:25 PM.
Inni ji, thanks for sharing your deep longings for such a Saadh Sangat. We go to the gurdwara to seek His Grace with abject humility and pray: 'Tudh baavai taa bakhas laihi khotay sang kharay' [GGS:261.4] - 'But, if it pleases You, Lord, then You forgive the counterfeit along with the genunine.' Or, if you like: 'Ham nahee changay buraa ahee ko-ayâ' [GGS:728.13] - 'I am not good; no one is bad'. Guru Nanak has provided us with the perfect methodology starting with: 'Jat paahaara Dheeraj sun-aar' - As a radio amateur with some 50 years standing, we have a saying: 'If it does not work, it is not a bad idea to read the manual.'