Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
People have tried and tried to describe even the smallest fraction of the greatness of the True Name. They have grown exhausted. They still cannot measure its value.
Even if everyone gathered together and said everything they knew — it would not make the oneness any bigger or smaller. It simply is what it is, unchanged by whether we can describe it or not.
The oneness is not made greater by praise or diminished by forgetting. It does not expand when everyone celebrates it or contract when everyone ignores it. This is a liberating teaching: your recognition does not create the oneness. Your forgetting does not erase it. It simply is.
The human tendency is to think our descriptions or devotions add something. They add something to us — they open us, reconnect us, make us more alive. But they change nothing about the source. The sun does not need to be praised to keep shining.
Can you think of something true and beautiful that exists completely independently of whether anyone recognizes it? How does that make you feel about it?
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