When Doubt Splits Open, Fear Turns to Trust
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
**Bh** — when doubt finally splits open, something clicks into place. The tangle of "maybe" and "I'm not sure" clears, and a quiet trust rises up in me.
My fear breaks apart, and confidence takes its place. And then I understand the thing I kept getting backwards: I used to think the One was somewhere *out there*, far away, outside of me — but now I know the One is right *inside* me, has been all along. Once that mystery opened up, I recognized the One everywhere.
The letter Bhabha. bhaydeh bhayd milaavaa — when the veil of bhayd (division, doubt) is pierced, union follows. ab bha-o bhaan bharosa-o aavaa — fear (bha-o) is shattered and bharosaa — trust, confidence — arrives. Note the guidelines' care with bharosaa: rendered as trust and confidence, not "faith" with its English baggage. The revelation at the center is Kabir's signature: jo baahar so bheetar jaani-aa — what I thought was outside, I now know as within. The seeker's great reversal — the divine was never a distant object to reach but the nearest reality, closer than one's own breath. bhoopat pehchaani-aa — the "Sovereign" is recognized, rendered per project lens as simply recognizing the One, once the mystery opens.
Have you ever searched everywhere for something that turned out to be right where you already were?
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