Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
This house is loaded with jewels — gems and rubies of every kind — but a wandering mind can't find them.
A water-finder knows where water hides under the ground, and then the well is dug in a moment. In the same way, the True Guru helps you find the treasure, the Naam.
The treasure you are looking for is already inside you, and the Guru shows you where it is.
Ghar ratan laal baho maanak laaday — the house is loaded with ratan, laal and maanak, gems and rubies of every kind. The house is you. But a mind that is always running can't stop long enough to look.
The verse uses a picture from village life. An odaa was a water-diviner, a person who could walk over dry ground and tell where water lay hidden below. Once he pointed, the well could be dug fast. The Guru is like that. The treasure, the vasat, was there all along. The Guru shows you where to dig.
What good thing do you have that you sometimes forget to notice?
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