Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Where are you rushing off to, looking everywhere? The One you are searching for is already with you, closer than your own breath — so why keep wandering from place to place hunting for it outside?
In the Sangat, gently take down the tall hill of pride inside you — that big feeling of "me, me, me" that keeps you restless. Let it settle, and a quiet ease and peace fill you; the moment you see the One, you are lit up with joy.
As long as we cling to attachment and to "me and mine," we keep coming and going, tossed about. But Nanak says: little by little, when you rest in the shelter of the Guru's people, the knot of pain is untied, and you are drawn home into the One.
Dhadha is the "stop searching outside" Pauri. Sang tuhaarai prabh basai — "the One dwells right with you" — so ban ban kahaa firaahi, "why roam forest to forest?" The central image is the dhayree — a mound or hillock of ahankaar (egotism) — which is to be dhahhu (gently pulled down) in saadhsang, the Sangat. Garabh jon dukh is the restless coming and going of a life ruled by "me and mine": pride keeps us wandering. The close is pure rescue: dukh kay faahay kaati-aa — the noose of pain is cut, lee-ay samaa-ay, merged back into the One. And the answer to the opening question: you were never far.
Have you ever searched everywhere for something that was right beside you the whole time? How did it feel when you finally noticed?
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