Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One made the universe and holds it all in its power.
You can't reach the One by counting and calculating; that just leaves you wandering in doubt. Meet the teaching, die while alive, and understanding absorbs you into truth; through the Word ego is uprooted and you are joined to the One, who knows and does all, and delights in what it has made.
The fourth Pauree pairs the One's sovereignty with the key phrase jeevat marnaa — "remains dead while yet alive." The One "cannot be obtained by counting" — not by intellectual accounting — but by the ego's death within a living person. And the Pauree ends on a lovely note: the One, having made everything, "beholding His Creation, He rejoices." The maker delights in the made.
What are you trying to 'calculate' your way to that might only open when you stop grasping?
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