Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Let me set down the need to be the cleverest one in the room. When I stop insisting I know best and start understanding the flow of existence — the way life actually moves — a quiet peace arrives. Whatever unfolds, let me meet it as good. In easy days and hard days alike, let me keep my attention on the Oneness. Both kinds of days can be a doorway.
Man kee mat tiaagahu — "renounce the mind's cleverness" — is not anti-intelligence; it is anti-arrogance. The pauri asks us to trade the exhausting posture of the mind that must always be right for hukam boojh, understanding the flow of existence. Jo prabh karai so-ee bhal maanhu is the harder teaching: meet what comes as good. Note it does not say suffering is good or deserved — it says keep meditating through comfort and difficulty (sukh dukh ohee dhi-aa-ee-ai), so that neither one throws you.
Can you think of a time being sure you were right actually made things harder?
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