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it takes you is the shore. If it drowns you, that is your destination. Then where is the anxiety, then where is the pain? You have cut off the very roots of suffering. What Nanak says is invaluable -- that all be left to God's will and command. Only by following the path he has etched out for you can everything happen.
Nanak has closed all doors on the ego: first, by emphasizing the guru's grace -- that whatever you attain through your effort is attained only by the guru's grace -- and then, that whatever happens, wherever the current of life takes you, is by His command. Then nothing remains to be done. Then it will not be long before you realize that:
WE CANNOT COMPREHEND HIM THOUGH WE THINK A MILLION TIMES;
NOR QUIET THE MIND BY SILENCE, HOWEVER LONG WE SIT;
NOR A MOUNTAIN OF BREAD APPEASE THE HUNGER OF THE SOUL;
NOR ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEATS OF MIND ACHIEVE UNITY WITH HIM.
HOW CAN TRUTH BE ATTAINED AND THE VEIL OF FALSEHOOD TORN?
NANAK SAYS, BY SUBMISSION TO THE DIVINE ORDER, WHICH IS PREORDAINED.
The True Name, Vol 1
Chapter #2
Chapter title: The Weight of a Flower
22 November 1974 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7411220
ShortTitle: TRUE102
Audio: Yes
Video: No
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BY DIVINE ORDER ALL FORM WAS CREATED,
BUT HIS ORDER CANNOT BE DESCRIBED.
DIVINE ORDER HAS CREATED ALL LIFE,
AND BY IT ALL GREATNESS BESTOWED;
BY DIVINE ORDER ARE SOME HIGH AND SOME LOW,
AND PAIN AND PLEASURE GRANTED;
BY HIS ORDER DO SOME ATTAIN SALVATION,
OR ENDLESSLY WANDER THROUGH CYCLES OF DEATH AND BIRTH.
ALL ARE SUBJECT TO HIS ORDER; NONE IS BEYOND HIS REACH.
NANAK SAYS, HE WHO UNDERSTANDS HIS ORDER BECOMES FREED FROM HIS SELF.
THOSE WHO KNOW POWER WILL SING OF HIS MIGHT.
KNOWING CHARITY, SOME SING OF HIS BOUNTY AS THE SIGN.
SOME SING OF HIS VIRTUES AND HIS GREATNESS.
SOME SING OF HIS KNOWLEDGE, WHEN SCHOLARSHIP IS THEIR BENT.
SOME SING THAT HE CREATES THE BODY AND TURNS IT BACK TO DUST.
SOME SING THAT THE LIFE HE TAKES WILL AGAIN
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