virinder ji,

How would this work if a Sikh were saying grace in a Christian home? The idiom is so far out of the experience of a vast majority of Christians, who have little if any understanding of the subtleties, nuances and specifics of Eastern thought. In this instance, the 36 literal delicacies do not refer to food if we want the spiritual meaning. How would the non Sikhs grasp the meaning and significance of that grace? Would the Sikh then have to explain the entire shabad from which this one line emerges? and then have to explain how the entire shabad was revealed? A short line could turn into a very lengthy discourse that no one had bargained for, and that many Sikhs would be unable to explain anyway. Anyway that is my mental image of what would happen next.