Real Strength Is the One's, and Bullying Force Always Crumbles
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Beloved sets the whole stage, plays every part, and watches the show it made.
In the old tales, even as a child it stands up to cruel and boastful powers and they simply fall away.
Real strength is the One's alone — and puffed-up, bullying force always crumbles before it.
Akhaarhaa — the arena or stage — makes the One playwright, actor, and audience at once. The old Krishna tales of overcoming Kansa and other tyrants are abstracted here to cruel and boastful powers falling away. And bal bhannai — the shattering of “fools' and idiots' power” — is turned so the target is cruelty and pride, never persons: bullying force undoes itself, gently reframed.
Have you seen someone's showing-off or bullying fall apart on its own?
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