Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Even if you chant the Name of the Lord with great longing — your past actions are still not erased by chanting alone.
The Lord's devotees surrender to His Will. And those devotees — they are accepted at His Door.
Har har japai ta-o kit gun japee-ai, poorv karmaa nah jaavai — even if one chants Har Har with great longing (ta-o), for what quality does one chant if past karma (poorv karmaa) is not erased? The question is almost confrontational: what exactly is being accomplished by the chanting, if it doesn't uproot the past? This is not saying chanting is useless — it is saying that chanting from ego, chanting as a transaction one believes will automatically erase the past, misses the point.
Har ke jan sahj subhaa-ay milai, sachee dargas paahai — the Lord's devotees meet Him naturally, through surrender (sahj subhaa-ay — effortlessly, through natural ease, through alignment with the Way); they attain a place at the True Door. Sahj subhaa-ay is one of the key phrases of the GGS: the effortless ease that is not laziness but the result of complete alignment. The devotee who surrenders to His Will doesn't strain toward liberation — they arrive easily, because they are already moving in the direction of the Truth. And the True Door receives them.
The contrast: chanting with great longing but ego intact → past not erased. Surrendering to His Will without struggle → accepted at the True Door. The difference is not the quantity of chanting but the quality of orientation.
What is the difference between doing a spiritual practice because you believe it will earn you something and doing it out of genuine love — and have you felt both?
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