Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Beloved One — the keeper of the whole world — is deep, deep beyond measuring, more than any bucket could ever reach the bottom of.
There is nothing else quite like it. And it carries itself with a calm, unworried ease — never anxious, never in a hurry.
A Shalok naming the One with tender names — laal (beloved), gopaal (sustainer of the world), gobind (lord of the universe) — and then three words for its depth: gahir (deep), gambheer (profound), athaah (fathomless, "no bottom"). The image is a well or ocean so deep no line ever touches the floor. The closing word is the gem: bayparvaah — carefree, unworried, without anxiety. In this project's lens this is a beautiful thing to say about the ground of reality: the One is not a nervous manager fretting over the world. It rests in perfect, unshakable ease — the very sahaj it invites us into. To take shelter in something bayparvaah is to lean your own worry against something that isn't worried at all.
What would it feel like to lean your biggest worry against something that is completely calm and unworried?
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