Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
If people find fault with me and my heart stays clean, I feel closer to the Beloved, not farther.
The wealth I really want — keeping the One in mind — lives safely inside me where no words can reach.
When my heart is pure and someone points at my faults, it is as if they are scrubbing my clothes clean for me.
Kabir gives a working picture of how this actually feels. If the heart is genuinely clean, criticism can't stain it — instead it washes it, the way a friend pointing out a smudge helps you wipe it off. The real treasure is Naam — keeping the divine present in the mind (in this project's lens, the living reality of the One held in awareness). That treasure is internal; it cannot be stolen by anyone's words. The "heaven" here is not a faraway place but nearness to the Beloved, available right now to a settled heart.
What is something inside you that no one's words can take away?
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