Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Within the body there are mansions upon mansions — and the soul makes its dwelling there.
There, the mind's true longings bear fruit — and the cycle of coming and going ends.
Guru Amar Das says the body is not a small, plain box. Inside it are many grand rooms.
Andar mahal anayk heh — there are many mansions within. The soul makes its home in them. All that inside this ordinary frame of bones and breath.
Some people have thought of the body as a prison, something to escape from. This verse sees it as a great house, room after room, with the soul at home inside. Think of a castle you have lived in for years but only ever used the kitchen.
In those inner rooms, man chindi-aa fal — the heart's true wishes come true. Not the surface wants, like one more snack or one more game. The deep longing under all of them.
A soul that has found what it was longing for does not need to come back looking again. Fir ho-ay na fayraa — no more rounds of coming and going.
What do you think your deepest wish actually is, beneath all the surface wants?
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