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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Jasvir Singh

Good morning.

We are now halfway through the Punjabi month of Katak. The month is an important one, filed with major festivals including Guru Nanak’s birthday in a couple of weeks’ time. Guru Nanak was the founder of the Sikh faith, and he composed verses marking each of the twelve months of the year. He focused on the changing seasons and the feelings that they evoked when it came to humanity’s relationship with the Almighty. The poetry is exquisite, and it uses the concept of the soul being a bride wishing to be reunited with her lover, the Eternal One, to describe how we as humans have a burning desire to know the unfathomable. This verse refers to the month we are currently in.

In the month of Katak, that alone comes to pass, which is pleasing to the Almighty’s will. The lamp of intuition burns, lit by the essence of reality. Love is the oil in the lamp, which unites the soul-bride with her Lord. The bride is delighted, in ecstasy. One who dies in faults and demerits - her death is not successful. But one who dies in glorious virtue, really truly dies. Those who are blessed with devotional worship of the Name of the Almighty, sit in the home of their own inner being. They place their hopes in You. Nanak says: please open the shutters of Your Door, O Eternal One, and meet me. A single moment is like six months to me.