Open the Inner Door and Stop Searching Elsewhere
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
**T** — it can feel like a hard path to find the One inside your own heart. But the doorway is there.
Open those inner doors and step into the place where the One lives, right within you. Once you've truly seen that steady, unmoving One, you stop slipping off in search of it elsewhere. You stay close, held in place, and your heart fills up with a deep, settled happiness.
The letter Tatta. Bikat ghaat ghat maahee — the path (ghaat) within the heart is bikat, steep or difficult — Kabir is honest that turning inward isn't automatically easy. But the instruction is direct: khol kapaat — open the inner doors — and enter mahal, the palace of Presence. Meeting the atal One (immovable, unshakeable) ends the wandering: kateh na jaavaa, you go nowhere else, because nothing else compares. Rahai lapat... parcha-o paavaa — you remain lovingly attached and the heart finds contentment (parcha-o, a settled intimacy). Hard doorway, but a home on the other side.
What's a door inside yourself — a feeling or a quiet place — that you could open more often?
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