Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I looked everywhere — in every direction — and then found the One right inside my own heart.
The One made your very self a kind of temple, and lives there quietly all along.
Wherever I look now, I see the One — in this, in that, in everything.
The darkness lifts and the aches fade when even a drop of that sweetness reaches you. Meeting real wisdom, I found the One at home in me.
The Chhant's climax is the great inward turn: dah dis khojat... ghar mahi paaiaa — "I wandered searching in the ten directions, but found the Lord in the home of my own being." This is one of Gurbani's central discoveries — after searching everywhere outside, the One turns up within. The body is called har mandar — the Lord's temple — where the One "continues to dwell." And once found within, the One is seen without too: "wherever I look, the Lord is there... everywhere." Inner and outer resolve into one seeing. The "darkness dispelled" and "pains removed" when the nectar "trickles down" (amrit... chuaa) is the felt relief of that recognition. For a child: the thing you're looking everywhere for might be closest of all — right inside you — and once you find it there, you start seeing it everywhere.
What is something wonderful that's closer to you than you usually remember?
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