Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
We arrive in the flow of existence, and we leave in that same flow. No one stands outside of it.
And the endless coming and going — the restless churn — settles and ends for the one whose mind is truly filled with the One.
A Shalok on hukam — in this project's lens, "the flow of existence," not "God's command" as a rule barked from above. Aavat hukam, binaas hukam: we come by the flow, we go by the flow; aagyaa bhinn na ko-ay — nothing is separate from it, the way nothing escapes gravity. This is not fatalism that cancels your choices; it is the recognition that your whole existence is held within a larger movement you are part of, not apart from. The second line offers the release: aavan jaanaa tih mitai — the restless cycle of coming and going quiets for the one jih man so-ay — whose mind rests in the One. When you stop swimming against the river, the exhausting churn stops too. Peace is alignment, not escape.
When have you stopped fighting how things naturally go, and felt tiredness turn into calm?
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