"I have abandoned cleverness, quieted my anxiety, and renounced my egotism."
The Arc
Peace found by bowing — cleverness, worry, and ego set down (rahau); seeing the universal net of attachment, hurrying to sanctuary, death's shadow ceasing (v.1); swimming the ocean of fire through the good company, total peace at the feet (v.2).
Key Vocabulary
chaturaaee, chintaa, ahankaar / cleverness, worry, ego — three faces of the self-running-its-universe, set down together.
jam / death's shadow — ceases chasing the one absorbed in service (jeevat marnaa).
agan saagar / ocean of fire — worldly existence, crossed by grace through the Sangat.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Cleverness-worry-ego-released links to Devgandhaari B00C3033 (cleverness dropped into trust) and Gauree's peace-of-trust. Death-stops-chasing links to jeevat marnaa (Devgandhaari B00C3034). Ocean-of-fire-crossed links to Aasaa's ocean-of-fire and B00C1514's Sangat-boat.
For Raag Jaitsree
Names peace by subtraction — three burdens set down — and locates the crossing of life's fire in the good company received as grace. A compact map of how the ego's whole apparatus is laid to rest.
"I have abandoned cleverness, quieted my anxiety, and renounced my egotism."
The Arc
Peace found by bowing — cleverness, worry, and ego set down (rahau); seeing the universal net of attachment, hurrying to sanctuary, death's shadow ceasing (v.1); swimming the ocean of fire through the good company, total peace at the feet (v.2).
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Cleverness-worry-ego-released links to Devgandhaari B00C3033 (cleverness dropped into trust) and Gauree's peace-of-trust. Death-stops-chasing links to jeevat marnaa (Devgandhaari B00C3034). Ocean-of-fire-crossed links to Aasaa's ocean-of-fire and B00C1514's Sangat-boat.
For Raag Jaitsree
Names peace by subtraction — three burdens set down — and locates the crossing of life's fire in the good company received as grace. A compact map of how the ego's whole apparatus is laid to rest.