Thus to the Lord doth Asha, the Truth, reply: 'No guide is known who can shelter the world from woe, None who knows what moves and works Thy lofty plans.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker answers Asha that no guide can shelter the world from woe, nor does anyone know the workings of divine plans.
- In plain terms
- No one can protect the world from suffering or understand divine plans.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept the limits of human knowledge about fate and suffering.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you cope with unknowable suffering?
- What role does faith play?
Another view
Interpretation depends on religious belief.
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