Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I searched in every direction I could think of. Everywhere I looked, there was the One, already there.
And the restless mind comes to rest, softly, when grace fills it completely.
I searched everywhere for the One, and found the One was already everywhere; the mind settles when grace fills it.
This Shalok, a short couplet, packs a whole search into one line. Das dis khojat means "searching in the ten directions." That is every way you could possibly look. And the discovery? Jat daykhau tat soay: "wherever I look, there the One is." There was no place the One was missing.
The second line says how the searching stops. Man bas aavai means the mind "comes into hand." It settles down. That happens jay pooran kirpaa ho-ay, when full grace is there.
Notice the order. The mind is not forced into calm first, and then given grace. Grace comes, and the mind settles by itself. Think of a glass of muddy water. Stirring it harder never clears it. Set it down and let it rest, and it clears on its own. Grace is received, not won.
Has anything you searched hard for turned out to have been right there the whole time?
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