ਕਿਰਤੁ ਪਇਆ ਪਰਵਾਣਾ ਲਿਖਿਆ ਬਾਹੁੜਿ ਹੁਕਮੁ ਨ ਹੋਈ ॥
kirat pa-i-aa parvaanaa likhi-aa baahurh hukam na ho-ee.
The deeds are done according to pre-ordained destiny; no one can turn back this Order.
ਜੈਸਾ ਲਿਖਿਆ ਤੈਸਾ ਪੜਿਆ ਮੇਟਿ ਨ ਸਕੈ ਕੋਈ ॥੨॥
jaisaa likhi-aa taisaa parhi-aa mayt na sakai ko-ee. ||2||
As it is written, so it comes to pass; no one can erase it. ||2||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Things happen according to what was written; no one can turn the order back.
As it is written, so it unfolds; no one can rub it out.
Worry cannot rewrite what is written — so worry adds nothing.
The unchangeable order ("as it is written, so it comes to pass") is stated firmly. Read with the Pause, this is not fatalism breeding despair but a basis for peace: since the order cannot be erased by anxiety or cleverness, worry adds nothing. The cure for fretting is the same as in Raag Gauree — rest in the One who holds the whole.
A Question to Sit With
What might you set down if you trusted that fretting changes nothing?
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