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.
If you're going to be awake to anything, be awake to the One, day and night.
Moment by moment your life is running out — like water slipping from a cracked pitcher.
Guru Tegh Bahadur opens with a gentle, urgent wake-up: "if you are conscious, then be conscious of Him." And the image is unforgettable — life "passing away, like water from a cracked pitcher." A cracked pitcher loses its water quietly, steadily, whether or not you notice; so does a life. The Ninth Master does not frighten; he simply makes vivid what is always true, so we spend the water that remains on what matters.
If your time were water leaking from a cracked pitcher, what would you make sure to use it for?
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