Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Some things are simply the way life works, and no amount of clever arguing will change them — like trying to reason with a river about which way to flow. When you stop fighting it, something in you relaxes.
Set down the need to be right and the feeling of being separate and special, and step into the flow. For the one turned to the Guru, that heavy sense of a lonely little self lifts away, and you become free. Nanak says: the one who serves stays lovingly tuned to Truth, and living that way feels like the most natural thing in the world.
Shalok, Third Mehl. amar vayparvaahu — the Order (Hukam) is carefree and beyond challenge; cleverness and arguments (siaanap, hujat) do not work against it. The invitation: drop self-conceit (aap chhod), take sanctuary, accept the Will (rajaa-ay). For the one turned to the Guru, Death's rod (jam dand) does not fall, because the ego (haumai) has gone from within. Hukam is framed as the way existence works, like a river's flow.
Is there something you keep arguing with that would feel lighter if you accepted it?
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