Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Divine is inside you, but the one who cannot see does not know it.
Fooled by doubt, that one is caught in a trap.
A stone does not speak, and it gives nothing to anyone.
Such empty rituals are useless, and such service bears no fruit.
The Divine you are looking for is already inside you.
Antar day-o na jaanai andh: the One is within, but the unseeing one does not know it. Bhram kaa mohi-aa paavai fandh: charmed by doubt, a person steps into a snare. The presence you seek is already inside you, so looking for it only in an outer object misses the mark. Na paathar bolai naa kichh day-ay: the stone neither speaks nor gives. The critique is of hollow, heartless ritual, in any faith; devotion itself the hymn holds high.
Have you ever searched everywhere for something that was in your own pocket the whole time?
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