Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The soul does not really die. It does not drown, and it does not have to struggle to swim across. The One who made everything is the one doing everything. We arrive in the flow of life and we leave in the flow of life. Before anything began and after everything ends, that flow is everywhere.
Pure Hukam theology. The soul neither dies nor needs to "swim across" by its own effort, because crossing is not a private athletic feat -- it is surrender to the One who does everything. "By the Hukam we come, by the Hukam we go" echoes Japji's second pauri almost word for word. And the Will is not an event but the medium: present before and after time. This quietly dissolves the panic of death that the surrounding verses keep naming.
Does it feel comforting or strange to think the soul does not really die? Why?
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