Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Servant Nanak has found the perfect Guru,
who has shown me the One — within me and all around me.
The One the Guru shows you inside is the same One all around you.
Naanak jan gur pooraa paa-i-aa — servant Nanak has found the perfect Guru. Antar baahar ayk dikhaa-i-aa — inside and outside, the Guru has shown me the One.
That is why the earlier lines work. A person can meet the world freely because the One is out there too. Think of hearing your favorite song through your headphones, then walking into a room where it is playing too. The same music is inside and outside. Another shabad (Shabad 114) sings of the One in every heart.
How would you move through the world if you met the same One everywhere in it?
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