Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I keep asking: what is the way? What should I do, how should I serve, to keep You always in my thoughts?
And the answer comes quietly: set down your pride, loosen your tight grip on things.
Do that, keep the company of good people, and you will find yourself carried safely home.
The pauri poses a direct question — kaun so jatan, upaa-o, sevaa? what method, what effort, what service opens the way? — and then answers it, which is why the question is voiced plainly here. The answer is disarmingly simple: maan abhimaan moh taj — let go of pride and clinging — and santeh sang udhaari, be carried across in the company of the good. Effort is not the door; humility and good company are. Guru Arjan signs the shabad.
Is there something you are gripping too tightly that might feel better to loosen?
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