Salok Vaaraan Te Vadheek (Mehl 3), Salok 81 — the temple is inside you
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One built the Temple of the One, the Harimandir, and the One lives in it.
Through the Guru's teaching, I have found the One; my attachment to Maya — the pull of the world — has burned away.
In the Temple of the One are countless treasures; remember the Naam, and the nine treasures are yours.
Nanak says: blessed is the happy soul-bride who turns to the Guru, searches for the One, and finds Him.
By great good fortune, one searches the temple-fortress of the body and finds the One right there in the heart.
The One built the body as a temple and lives inside it.
Har Mandir here is the body as the dwelling-place of the divine — the same insight that later gave the Golden Temple its name, but pointed first at the human being. The "nine treasures" is a traditional image of complete wealth, relocated from the outer world to the inner life. The search ends where it began: within.
If the answer were already inside you, what would change about how you look for it?
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