Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When grace arrives, I meet the true teaching. A lamp lights up inside me, and suddenly the dark room of my mind can see.
I come to understand what winning and losing really are. Then I finally see how precious my own inner home has been all along.
This one says grace lights a lamp inside you, and you see how precious your inner home is.
Man mandar meh deepak jali-o — a lamp is lit in the temple of the mind. Mandar is a temple and deepak is a lamp. It is a lovely picture of waking up. The light was always there. The lamp just needed lighting. Think of walking into a dark room and flipping the switch. Nothing new came into the room, but now you can see what was already there.
What the light shows is jeet haar kee sojhee, real understanding of winning and losing. Jeet is victory and haar is defeat. The world's scoreboard is not the real game.
Then comes is ghar kee keemat, the value of your own home. This is the inner life you ignored while chasing things outside.
And how does it all start? Kar kirpaa ja-o satgur mili-o — by grace, the True Guru is met. It is given, not earned.
What is something valuable about yourself that you overlook because it was always just... there?
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