English Translation of the Daily Hukamnama. (Siri Guru Granth Sahib ji. Ang: 721)

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Waheguru ji ka khalsa! Waheguru ji ki Fateh!
 
Today’s hukamnama is from Guru Nanak Dev Ji in raag Tilang from page 721 of Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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In the hukam today Guru Nanak is offering a prayer, and talking about the experience of death, and the attitude that we can get into of not acknowledging death, not recognizing that death happens for all of us, and the mistakes that we make in the face of ignoring that death is a reality. The Hukam is really very humble, its a prayer to the Divine and in it, Guru Nanak is really speaking from sort of his own weaknesses, his own human, very human psyche and he will do this a lot in Gurbani where he will speak from the most vulnerable, most human, most flawed part of himself as a way to help us kind of  acknowledge the weaknesses  we have inside of ourselves and then through the Gurbani, through the prayer, he allows those weaknesses to be expressed and then shows us a way to elevate ourselves out of those traps of the mind or those shadows that we all have to deal and wrestle with.

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