Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Someone can wander the whole wide world crying out for love and still feel thirsty.
And then, meeting real wisdom, they find what they were searching for was waiting at home all along.
A luminous two-line Shalok: "I wandered the whole world crying 'Love, O Love!', but my thirst was not quenched" — until "meeting the True Guru... I found my Beloved when I returned to my own home." It's the inward turn in miniature — the same discovery as Guru Arjan's Shabad 7 ("searched the ten directions, found within"). We look everywhere outside for the love we're thirsting for, and it turns out to be waiting inside, at home in our own heart. For a child: sometimes the thing you're searching the whole world for is right where you started.
Has something you looked everywhere for ever turned up right where you began?
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