Bhana manna is the phrase said at Punjabi funerals and it is routinely mistranslated as resignation, which Sikhs will correct sharply. It means accepting what has come as the will already at work, and specifically means ending the argument with the past tense — not declining to act on the present. The anchoring example is Guru Arjan, who is said to have recited a hymn ending in the line sweet is Your doing while being tortured on a hot plate, and whose son responded to that death by arming the community. Both belong to the same posture: the event is accepted, the injustice is still opposed. Where it gets contested is in ordinary life, where bhana can be and is used to close down complaint about things that are not fate at all — a bad marriage, a caste slight, an institutional failure — and Sikh women writers in particular have written about being told to accept the hukam of situations that were somebody's decision.