Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
There is only One. And the One is found by the True Guru's grace — a gift that is always here, waiting for an open heart.
Please listen to me — I am coming to You with an honest, humble heart.
Five restless pulls tug at me — anger, greed, wanting-more, clinging, and pride — along with the ups and downs of my moods. You are the shelter for anyone who feels they have no shelter. Please keep me safe.
I have tried so many good things — traveling to special places, keeping careful practices, sitting to meditate the right way.
And still, the storm inside needs something more than effort alone. So I stop striving by myself and simply turn to You, and rest.
The rahau asks the Merciful One to hear the deen, the humble. The panch (five thieves) and teen (the three shifting dispositions, the gunas) trouble the mind, and the One is anaath naath, master of the masterless. The verse lists earnest outer efforts — pilgrimage, the khat karam (six prescribed rites), formal meditation — and finds that effort alone does not still the inner storm. The teaching is completion, not dismissal: good practice plus the heart's turning to grace. This is a critique of relying on formalism, which applies to every tradition, and it is handled so as not to disparage any practice or people.
When you have tried hard at something and still felt stuck, what helped you finally let go?
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