Sikhism·Siree Raag·Shabad 96
Verse 2 of 5

I Do Not Know Your Way, Lord

ਸੁਹੇਲਾ ਕਹਨੁ ਕਹਾਵਨੁ ॥
suhaylaa kahan kahaavan.
It is easy to speak and talk,
ਤੇਰਾ ਬਿਖਮੁ ਭਾਵਨੁ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
tayraa bikham bhaavan. ||1|| rahaa-o.
but it is difficult to accept Your Will. ||1||Pause||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

I do not know Your Way, Lord. I am foolish and ignorant.

Forgive me — I am just a child. Please save me, God.

Not knowing the way and admitting it: this is the honest position.

I do not know Your Way — the honest admission of not knowing is the beginning of genuine learning.
The deeper layer

The rahao is the prayer of the one who does not know: main maarag naahi jaanaa — I do not know Your Way. This is not false humility — it is the genuine recognition of the seeker who has tried to find the Way through their own intelligence and discovered the limit.

Barik bhool khamaavanaa — forgive the child's mistakes. The parent forgives the child not because the child has argued well but because of the relationship. The child's appeal is to the relationship, not to the argument.

"Please save me" — rakho Raam — not "help me save myself" but direct rescue.

A Question to Sit With

What is something you genuinely don't know — not as a philosophical position but as a real admission? What would it feel like to sit with not knowing and ask for help rather than trying to figure it out?

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