Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
O Siblings of Destiny — it is received only when God Himself bestows it.
People serve the True Guru only when the fever of egotism has been eradicated.
Nanak has met the Guru. All his sufferings have come to an end.
The closing pauri is one of the most theologically precise in Guru Arjan's Siree Raag: service of the Guru is possible only when the haumai rog (fever/disease of egotism) is eradicated. And this eradication itself happens when God bestows it.
The causal chain is entirely grace-driven: God bestows → egotism leaves → service becomes possible → the Guru is met → suffering ends. No step in this chain is accomplished by the human's self-effort alone. Each step is the fruit of the previous gift.
This is not a counsel of passivity. It is a counsel of receptivity: stay open to each gift as it comes.
Have you ever had a change happen in you that you didn't engineer — where something shifted and you realized afterward that you hadn't done it yourself? What was that?
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