Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I tried all sorts of clever methods to find You, and none of them worked. Then the teaching reached out, took me by the hand, and quietly drew me into Your service. What all my strategies could not do, being gently gathered in did.
This one says that what clever methods cannot catch comes when we are gathered in.
Anik jugat nahee paa-i-aa — by many ways, I did not find You. A jugat is a method, a trick, a technique. The seeking mind loves these. Here, every one of them fails.
Then the turn. Gur chaakar lai laa-i-aa — the Guru took hold of me and made me Your servant. Notice who is doing the work. The seeker does not win a prize. The seeker is taken, gathered in.
Think of a child trying every key on a big ring to open a door. Then a parent opens it from the inside and says, "Come in." That is grace. It is received, not built.
Has something you searched hard for ever come only when you stopped forcing it?
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