The treasure is already inside the home; a costume can never calm a restless heart.
The Arc
Grace leads to the Guru, the One settles in, and the mind grows steady as a deep-rooted tree. The rahau warns gently against feeding on what cannot nourish, always pointing back to remembrance. The verses make Guru Amar Das's signature inward turn: outward religious costume cannot calm the heart, so the wandering mind is brought home, where the real treasure — the nine treasures of the Name — has been waiting all along. The close: the One is never far; there is nowhere it is not.
Key Vocabulary
nihchal mat — a steady, unshakable mind.
baho bhaykh — many religious robes; outward form without inner change.
ghar meh vasat / nav nidh — the treasure, the nine treasures, found within.
naam rahi-aa bharpoor — the Name pervading everywhere.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The inward-home theme connects to B00C2491 (nij ghar) and is the counterpart to the outward-robes critique. Relocating the sacred from out there to in here is a through-line of Guru Amar Das's Basant.
For Raag Basant
The steadying, rooting language fits the raag: a mind that has set deep roots, ready to bloom.
Translation Notes
Bikh khaa-ay (eating poison) is softened to chasing what cannot nourish, kept diagnostic and paired with the remedy. The baho bhaykh critique is flagged as formalism — the emptiness of outward religious display in any tradition, not a swipe at one faith.
The treasure is already inside the home; a costume can never calm a restless heart.
The Arc
Grace leads to the Guru, the One settles in, and the mind grows steady as a deep-rooted tree. The rahau warns gently against feeding on what cannot nourish, always pointing back to remembrance. The verses make Guru Amar Das's signature inward turn: outward religious costume cannot calm the heart, so the wandering mind is brought home, where the real treasure — the nine treasures of the Name — has been waiting all along. The close: the One is never far; there is nowhere it is not.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The inward-home theme connects to B00C2491 (nij ghar) and is the counterpart to the outward-robes critique. Relocating the sacred from out there to in here is a through-line of Guru Amar Das's Basant.
For Raag Basant
The steadying, rooting language fits the raag: a mind that has set deep roots, ready to bloom.
Translation Notes
Bikh khaa-ay (eating poison) is softened to chasing what cannot nourish, kept diagnostic and paired with the remedy. The baho bhaykh critique is flagged as formalism — the emptiness of outward religious display in any tradition, not a swipe at one faith.