When Awe Fills the Heart, Smaller Fears Melt
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
**D** — here's a curious thing about fear. When your heart fills with awe for the One — a deep, respectful wonder — all your smaller everyday fears simply melt away into it.
But if you push that awe aside, the little fears come crowding back and cling to you. And here's the surprise ending: become truly fearless — rooted in that awe of the One — and even the fear hiding in your heart turns and runs. Awe of the One is the cure for being afraid of everything else.
The letter Dadda turns on the word dar — which means both “fear” and, more richly here, awe/reverence. Kabir's teaching: when dar toward the One wells up (a wonder-filled, respectful largeness of heart), the scattered anxieties of life (dar jaa-ee) dissolve into it — one great awe absorbs a thousand small dreads. Reject that awe and the little fears cling again. The paradox that closes it — nidar hoo-aa dar ur ho-ay bhaagai — becoming fearless makes even inner fear flee. In this project's gentle lens, we read dar toward the One as awe and reverence, never terror: standing in wonder before something vast is exactly what shrinks our everyday worries down to size.
Have you noticed that when you feel amazed or full of wonder, your worries seem to shrink? When has that happened?
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