Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
To the awakened heart, sin and virtue become one and the same. The endless labels of "this is bad" and "this is good" fall quiet.
In your own home is the magic stone that turns everything to gold. Stop searching outside for any other treasure.
When the heart rests in the One, it stops anxiously keeping score of good and bad. And it finds its treasure was at home all along.
Paap punn du-ay ayk samaan — sin and virtue become the same. Paap means wrong deeds, and punn means good deeds. This is one of Kabir's ulat-baasee lines, his upside-down sayings that make you stop and think. It needs care. Kabir is not saying that how we treat others does not matter.
He is describing a heart that has let go of anxious counting. Many teachers explain it this way: for the soul resting in the One, life is no longer a nervous tally of points won and lost. That is a helpful way to read the line, though the verse itself does not spell it out. This calm, easy state is called sahaj, natural peace.
Nij ghar paaras — the magic stone is in your own home. A paaras is the stone of old stories that turns iron into gold. Tajahu gun aan — stop searching for any other goodness. The power that changes you is within, not outside.
What might change if you did good things out of love, instead of to keep score of being good?
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