Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Those who stay connected to the oneness — who meditate on it, who keep returning to it — they live in peace in this world.
They are liberated. The noose of death is cut away for them.
Those who live without fear of the oneness — all their other fears dissolve.
Those who serve it are absorbed into it. Blessed are they — I am a sacrifice to them.
The promise here is experiential, not theological. It does not say "meditate and you will go to heaven after you die." It says meditating on the oneness produces peace in this world — in the middle of regular life, with its difficulties and uncertainties.
"The noose of death is cut away" is the poetic image for what happens when you stop being a separate self desperately clinging to its existence. When you recognise yourself as part of the oneness — not separate from it — death loses its power as a threat. What dies is the illusion of separateness, not you.
The fearlessness flows from the same recognition: a fearless Lord who is everywhere cannot be threatened by anything. Proximity to that fearlessness dissolves lesser fears.
Is there something in your life that you are afraid of losing? If you knew that what you truly are could not be lost, how would that change the fear?
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