Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Tell me — who can strike down the one who has already let the grasping self go?
What is left to frighten someone who carries no fear inside?
Such a one recognizes the living word everywhere, through all the worlds.
This verse plays on moo-ay — "already dead" in the sense of jeevat mar, the grasping self already released. Rendered with wellbeing care: not morbid, but fearless freedom — who can threaten someone with nothing left to lose to fear? Nidray ko kaisaa dar — what fear touches the fearless? — is again the nirbhau theme. Such a one hears the shabad in all three worlds — the teaching resounding everywhere. The fearlessness pictured here is spiritual; it need not deny ordinary fear or a prudent response to real danger.
What would you do differently if you truly weren't afraid of losing anything?
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