Attitude towards learning

Koi Gaave Ko Sune Har Nama Chit Laaye
One of my friend who read one of the blogs had a very interesting comment. What he is saying is basically what everyone feels who reads something like this for the first time or is not so familiar with the concepts that are used/talked about in Gurbani. This is something that everyone experiences in the beginning. Since I can talk from my experiences, even I had no understanding of the concepts explained/used in Bani. I was not born with that understanding. So what happened in between was that I attended satsang regularly. Initially I used to sit in the satsang and nothing used to go inside my head. It was like Ramesh Uncle (the person who used to explain shabads in Gurbani) was talking some foreign language (although he used to mostly explain in Punjabi). But with God's grace I did not give up and the curiosity within me to learn more helped too.
So my advice (and yes its free of cost!) to anyone who is interested in learning more about Gurbani is to have patience. Not all the mumbo jumbo is going to make sense at the very beginning. A lot of concepts are foreign to us. But like any other skill, it needs time and effort to master. How you put the effort is upto you. Like the heading says (a quote from Kabeer jis bani) "Whoever sings or listens to the Lord's Name with conscious awareness". The keyword here is that we do it with conscious awareness, attention and try our best to understand what has been said/written. After that if we have some doubts, we can always ask from someone we trust will give us somewhat close to the right answer.
Bottom line: We have to put in the effort of learning new concepts regarding Gurbani just as we do in our day to day lives, in our jobs, in our relationships and otherwise. This spirituality stuff is no different.