Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Why wander around? Friends, don't wander — it fills and pervades everywhere.
A single-line verse with a gentle scold and a great comfort: "why are you wandering around?" If the One "is permeating and pervading everywhere," then all the searching elsewhere is unnecessary — you are looking for what is already here, wherever "here" is. The wandering (physical pilgrimage, restless seeking, spiritual tourism) assumes the One is somewhere you are not. But there is no such somewhere. This lands the omnipresence of the previous shabads as a practical instruction: stop running around looking; the thing you seek is present exactly where you already are. Settle, and notice.
If what you're looking for is everywhere, including right where you stand, does it make sense to keep running around to find it?
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