When the One Is Everything, You Can Simply Rest
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One makes the world, keeps it in order, and watches over every coming and going.
When the One is truly everything and everywhere, who else is there even to turn to? There's only the One.
A shalok of quiet, total trust: He Himself creates and fashions the world, and keeps it in order; having created the beings, He oversees their birth and death. Everything — the making, the ordering, the whole arc of every life — is held by the One. And the closing question isn't despair; it's a kind of relieved settling: unto whom should we speak, when He Himself is all-in-all? There's no other authority to appeal to, no rival power to fear or petition — because there's only one presence, filling everything. When the One is truly everywhere, you stop looking around anxiously for somewhere else to turn; you rest, because the whole of reality is the One, and the One is caring for it.
How might it feel restful to know there's one caring presence behind absolutely everything?
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