Are you really so helpless? || Acharya Prashant, on Guru Granth Sahib (2019)

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Are you really so helpless? || Acharya Prashant, on Guru Granth Sahib (2019)

Mortals wander lost and confused through countless lifetimes; their fear of death is never removed. Says Nanak, vibrate and meditate on the Lord, and you shall dwell in the Fearless Lord. ||33||

I have tried so many things,but the pride of my mind has not been dispelled.I am engrossed in evil-mindedness, Nanak.O God, please save me! ||34||

Childhood, youth and old age –know these as the three stages of life.Says Nanak, without meditating on the Lord, everything is useless;you must appreciate this. ||35||

You have not done what you should have done;you are entangled in the web of greed.Nanak, your time is past and gone;why are you crying now, you blind fool? ||36||

~ Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, Salok MahallaGuru Granth Sahib, Ang 1428

Question: Acharya Ji, Pranaam. I am entangled in the web of greed. Now I am seeing this, and it is painful to watch all this evil. I love Lord, and feel like that these are obstacles on the way to Lord. I am seeing myself helpless.

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