It Is All His Doing, and That Is Relief

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

This pauri completes the surrender that the security of the Rahao makes possible. Jeea jant sabh tudh upaae — "you created (upaae) all (sabh) beings and creatures (jeea jant)." And jit jit bhaanaa tit tit laae — "wherever it bhaanaa (pleased you), there you laae (attached, assigned, set) [each one]." Every creature is placed in its role, its task, its situation, by the One's bhaana (will). This is Hukam again — the way existence is ordered (Shabad 12, Shabad 18).

The radical conclusion: sabh kichh keetaa teraa hovai, naahee kichh asaarhaa — "everything that happens is your keetaa (doing); there is nothing that is asaarhaa (ours)." Read this carefully. The seeker is releasing the very idea that she is the doer of anything. Not "I do some things and you do others," but "everything is your doing; nothing is mine." This is the complete dissolving of the proud, anxious haumai — the ego that takes credit, that imagines itself the author of its life, that therefore lives in fear of failing.

Here is the deep connection to the Rahao: this radical surrender is only possible, and only peaceful, because of the security established there. If you believed you were alone and unprotected, then "nothing is mine to do" would be terrifying — helplessness without a safety net. But because the One is your father, mother, protector everywhere (Rahao), to say "it is all your doing" is not terror but relief. You can lay down the exhausting burden of being the sole author of your fate, because the One who does everything is the One who loves and protects you. Surrender is safe because the One is trustworthy. The two halves fit: total security (Rahao) makes total surrender (here) possible, and total surrender deepens the peace of total security. To stop being the anxious doer is freedom, not loss — when the Doer is your loving parent.