My mind longs for the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan, and His Name.
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I don't know the way, and I have no virtue of my own. It is so hard to escape illusion!
Nanak has come and fallen at the teacher's feet; all his harmful leanings have vanished.
The honest confession — "I don't know the way, I have no virtue" — is not self-hatred but the clearing of the ground for grace (as throughout the raag). It admits the difficulty squarely: "it is so difficult to escape from Maya!" The seeker does not pretend the pull of illusion is easy to break. And then the one move that works: not more struggle, but falling at the feet — surrender, taking refuge. And the result is immediate: "all his evil inclinations vanished." What the seeker could not do by knowing the way or being virtuous, surrender did in a moment. The difficulty was real; the answer was not more effort but letting go into safer hands.
When something feels too hard to do alone, what's the difference between giving up and handing it over to help?
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