Japji Sahib · Chapter 2

Pauri 1 — On the limits of effort

1 verses · Guru Nanak dismantles the usual paths to Truth — thinking, silence, accumulation, cleverness — and answers 'how does one become true?' with the central word of Sikhi: walk in Hukam, the Divine Order already moving through all things.

• ¶ Pauri 2

  By thinking, one cannot reach Truth — not even by thinking a hundred thousand times