In the Jap Ji Sahib, Nanak says,
We Cannot Comprehend Him Though We Think A Million Times...
By Submission To The Divine Order Which Is Preordained.
This is a very valuable sutra. It is the quintessence of Nanak’s teachings. With all our thinking we cannot think of God. We think a million times, yet we cannot think about Him.
Nobody has ever arrived at Him by thought; in fact we have lost Him through excessive thinking. The more we think, the more we lose ourselves in thought.
God is not a concept, not a thought. He is not the outcome of the mind. God is Truth.
It requires what Zen masters and other Eastern mystics call the state of no-mind.
Buddha refers to it as the dissolution of the mind - the samadhi without thoughts.
Nanak says the only remedy is to leave everything to God: His Will be done.
Await His pleasure. Live the way He wants you to. Be whatever He wants you to.
Go wherever He takes you.
Let His command be your one and only spiritual practice.
Brush aside hopes and desires, and fill yourself with wonder and gratitude. If He has brought you sorrow there must be a reason behind it, some meaning, some mystery.
Do not complain but be filled with gratitude.
If He has kept you poor, welcome poverty; if He has made you rich, be grateful.
In happiness or in sorrow let one tune play incessantly within you.:
”I am happy the way You keep me. Your command is my life.”
By submission to the divine order which is preordained. Everything should be left in His hands; everything should be left to His will, to His design, and that alone will help.
Suddenly you will find yourself tranquil.
What did not happen through a thousand meditations begins merely by leaving all to His will; and it is bound to happen, because now there is no cause to worry.
What is worry ?
Worry arises whenever things are not happening as we wished them.
A family member is sick ; that should not happen, is our worry. A failed business or losses ; this should not have happened - becomes our anxiety.
We are trying to impose our will on existence ; that we know better than Him?
Things should not have happened as they have happened, and things should not be happening as they are happening...
This is our anxiety, our worry and then we suffer because of it.
With all these troubles plaguing the mind, we attempt to sit down to meditate. The worries, anxieties infiltrate and take over our meditation.
Then how can we possibly become tranquil?
There is only one formula for this:
Accept whatever is...Thy Will Be Done.