Karma Completer 32nd Pauri Japji
Karma Completer 32nd Pauri Japji
Karma Completer 32nd Pauri Japji
Of all of the spiritual vernacular in use today, “karma” is the word that we
probably hear most often. Karma is explained scientifically by Newton’s
Third Law of Motion: “Every action has a reaction, equal and opposite.”
Simply stated, when we create a cause through our actions and thoughts,
and we do not complete or resolve what we have created, we must
incarnate again to complete it. Everything that we are today – both
positive and negative – is a result of what we have created in the past.
Everything that we become tomorrow is the result of what we create
today. Our fears, limitations, old patterns, reactions to our environments,
habits, and feelings inhibit our ability to feel the Infinity of the moment and
complete what has been created. The resulting karmas create the
behaviors, patterns, and circumstances in our lives that are unpleasant
and sometimes outright destructive. Usually we don’t understand these
behaviors. Sometimes, we’re aware of them but unable to control them.
It’s like paying off a high-interest credit card. You feel awful that you have
the debt but have a hard time shaking it. Finally, after facing the music,
you discipline yourself and begin pecking away at the debt and
eventually pay it off. You feel better: Uplifted and released from being
beholden to a debtor.
Reciting the 32nd Pauri of Japji Sahib pays your debts and completes your
karma. As you can see from this translation, Nanak states that choosing an
active path of deep devotion yields Grace—a state of ease, virtue, and
divine assistance—as a gift of Creation.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
If my one tongue
Were to become two,
And the two to become
One million,
And the million
To become 20 million,
On this path,
The spouse climbs
With devotion
Step by step
To Union with Thee.
Nanak,
Grace is brought in
As a gift of the Creator.