I seek not praise, nor the attainment of yoga,
I seek not salvation, nor paradise...
I fear not the Hades, I wish not to escape it.
This cycle of birth and death I dread not.
I may be assigned to live in the nether regions,
Or midway between earth and heavens,
Or to fly in the air or to sink in the sea.
I worry not for any of these.
Indifferent to happiness, unafraid of sufferings,
Unconcerned about the state in between happiness and suffering.
Indifferent to where happiness and suffering be mixed,
And to where they be absent altogether,
Wherever I may live and in whatsoever condition,
Never absent from my remembrance may be my Lord.
This is my paradise, my salvation.
Spoken by Raj Kaur in remembrance of her husband Rana Surat Singh in Rana Surat Singh by Bhair Vir Singh [transl. by Prof. Harbans Singh, Professor of Sikh Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala].
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I seek not salvation, nor paradise...
I fear not the Hades, I wish not to escape it.
This cycle of birth and death I dread not.
I may be assigned to live in the nether regions,
Or midway between earth and heavens,
Or to fly in the air or to sink in the sea.
I worry not for any of these.
Indifferent to happiness, unafraid of sufferings,
Unconcerned about the state in between happiness and suffering.
Indifferent to where happiness and suffering be mixed,
And to where they be absent altogether,
Wherever I may live and in whatsoever condition,
Never absent from my remembrance may be my Lord.
This is my paradise, my salvation.
Spoken by Raj Kaur in remembrance of her husband Rana Surat Singh in Rana Surat Singh by Bhair Vir Singh [transl. by Prof. Harbans Singh, Professor of Sikh Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala].
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