Today I re-read a poem by Walt Whitman and was reminded of Guru Arjan's Rakha Ek.
I exist as I am
-Walt Whitman
I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content.
One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself,
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content.
One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself,
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.
Rakha Ek Hamarar Swami
- Guru Arjan
Translation - Shivpreet Singh
Here’s a refined version of your translation:
Content when I rise,
Content as I sit,
Content in my sleep,
Content when I wake,
In my home, content,
Outside, content,
For the One
who knows all hearts
Is my protector.
(first revision)
Singing oneness!
