Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Everyone belongs to the One, and the One belongs to everyone — we're all held in the same hands.
Nothing is finally in our own control; we move the way we're gently guided.
The verse states the raag's deep belonging: You belong to all, and all belong to You. No one is left out; everyone is held in the same hands. And the humbling companion truth: nothing is in anyone's hands; all walk as You cause them to walk. This isn't a denial of choice so much as a loosening of the anxious belief that everything rides on our own strength. We are being walked, guided, carried — part of a whole we don't have to hold up by ourselves. Belonging and being-guided are the same comfort: you're not running the universe, and you don't have to.
Does it feel lighter to know you don't have to control everything on your own?
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