Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One is all the holy places people travel to — and the one who bathes there too.
Whatever good and holy thing you could go searching for, the One is already that.
The One is kind, and freely gives away fearlessness to everyone.
A heart the One has brightened carries honor wherever it goes.
This Pauree relocates pilgrimage to the One: "the Creator Himself is the sixty-eight sacred places, and He Himself bathes in them." People traveled great distances to holy rivers and shrines believing the sacred was there; the Vaar says the sacred is the One, who is every holy place and every holy act. This is the Gurus' steady inward turn — you don't have to journey somewhere far to find the holy, because its source is everywhere and within. "The Destroyer of fear gives fearlessness to all" — a free gift, not a prize won by pilgrimage. For a child: you don't have to travel to a special faraway place to find what's holy; it's already everywhere, including right where you are.
Is there somewhere you think of as 'special' — and could that same specialness be found closer to home?
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