Siri Sevak Kaur highlights some concepts from pauris 1-6 of Japji Sahib.
Many doctors, nurses, students, residents and experts had palpated, probed and prodded my flesh like dead meat. But I was alive and duly certified even though I was told that my life hung by a slender thread. The tentative diagnosis pointed to my reality as hanging poignantly between life and death.
It just requires a plain unconditional faith in Him. Like our guru has said “Hukm razae chalna, nanak likhia naal”, I feel that his hukm is very simple i.e one should keep doing his work in full faith and accept life the way it comes.
O Almighty, You are the Supreme Being, physically unapproachable, but we look at You as a tree on which we birds (in you) depend for solace; please grant us the unstained (naam) virtues so that we praise You - live in your remembrance and commands ( in all ages) all the time (by the Word) as taught by the Guru .
I think it's great to learn more about the Gurus. I feel more and more at home with the different "Nanaks" as I connect to their words through my daily hukam.
This tradition in Sikh baby names - Kaur & Singh, was intended to reduce the prejudice in India created on caste-typing based on the family name and to show equality between men and women.

Lareevar ਲਰੀਵਾਰ is the way of writing Gurbani where there are no spaces. Meaning all of the words are unbroken from one another in a continuous line as written below.

ੴ ਸਤਿਨਾਮੁਕਰਤਾਪੁਰਖੁਨਿਰਭਉਨਿਰਵੈਰੁਅਕਾਲਮੂਰਤਿਅਜੂਨੀਸੈਭੰਗੁਰਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ॥॥ ਜਪੁ ॥ਆਦਿਸਚੁਜੁਗਾਦਿਸਚੁ ॥ਹੈਭੀਸਚੁਨਾਨਕਹੋਸੀਭੀਸਚੁ॥1॥ਸੋਚੈਸੋਚਿਨਹੋਵਈਜੇਸੋਚੀਲਖਵਾਰ ॥ਚੁਪੈਚੁਪਨਹੋਵਈਜੇਲਾਇਰਹਾਲਿਵਤਾਰ ॥ਭੁਖਿਆਭੁਖਨਉਤਰੀਜੇਬੰਨਾਪੁਰੀਆਭਾਰ ॥ਸਹਸਸਿਆਣਪਾਲਖਹੋਹਿਤਇਕਨਚਲੈਨਾਲਿ ॥ਕਿਵਸਚਿਆਰਾਹੋਈਐਕਿਵਕੂੜੈਤੁਟੈਪਾਲਿ ॥ਹੁਕਮਿਰਜਾਈਚਲਣਾਨਾਨਕਲਿਖਿਆਨਾਲਿ ॥1॥

Human virtues and God's qualities by Rawel Singh
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