GURBANI is ACTUALLY about the PRESENT TENSE. Again and again the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji proclaims..Gobind Milak kee EH Teri Bareeah.."EH" is the PRESENT TENSE...this HUMAN BIRTH...the most valuable..once ina a Lifetime type of Golden Chance..so many metaphors..stressing THIS TIME..the PRESENT TIME...the NOW !!

But sadly more than a few are constantly ..."looking back....past karmas..past lives..past deeds..blah blah blah...just like a studnet sitting in the Examination Room with exam paper in front of him..instead of answering the questions..constantly day dreams about..why i failed last time..what happeend..was it this..was it that..and then the Examiner says..Times UP...hand over your papers..and our student hands over a BLANK PAPER.....Others dwell upon..the FUTURE..what will i become..will i be a dog or acat or a bull..what will happen to me after i die...and so on..and Once again these too hand in BLANK PAPERS !! Only the very selected FEW..GURMUKHS spend time in the PRESENT..answering the questions..and hand over completed papers !!! That si why its said..GURMUKH janam swaar dargah challiah....!! The GURMUKH ahs doen hsi homework...and travelled ON....