Raag Soohee, Shabad 75 - May Your Will Taste Sweet to Me
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I come with empty hands - I do not have it all figured out, and I do not know the fancy rituals.
Nanak asks for one kindness: to sing Your praises. May the way life flows taste sweet to him.
Nanak asks for one gift: that the way life flows would start to taste sweet.
Nirgun mugaDh ajaan agi-aanee — "I have no gun, no merit. I am simple and I don't know much." This is honest emptiness, like holding out empty hands. It is humility, and there is no self-hatred in it. Karam Dharam nahee jaanaa — "I don't know good deeds or right living."
Then comes the prayer: da-i-aa karahu naanak gun gaavai — be kind, so Nanak may sing Your praises. And mithaa lagai tayraa bhaanaa — may Your bhaanaa, Your Will, taste sweet to me.
The Will is also called hukam, the flow of how things happen. At first we may only put up with it, like medicine. The soul grows ripe when it learns to love that flow, like fruit slowly turning sweet in the sun.
What hard thing have you slowly come to accept, even be grateful for?
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