Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Let your minds be imbued with His Love, O blessed and fortunate ones. By His Pleasure, the Guru bestows His Gifts.
The Guru has lovingly implanted the Naam within me. I am a sacrifice to the True Guru.
Without the True Guru, the Name of the Lord is not found — even if people perform hundreds of thousands, even millions, of rituals.
The critique of ritual (karamaa) is consistent across all the Gurus in Siree Raag: millions of rituals cannot substitute for the Naam. This is not anti-practice — it is anti-substitution. If the rituals are genuine engagement with the divine, they work. If they are substitutes for that engagement, they don't, regardless of their number.
"I am a sacrifice to the True Guru" (kurbaan Satigur) — Guru Ram Das's habitual posture of complete surrender. He is always offering everything, always at the feet.
Is there something religious or spiritual you do out of habit that has stopped feeling genuinely connected? What would it take to make it real again?
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