Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Benares, every sacred shrine there is, all the scriptures — the true teaching says they're all right here, in this mind.
The sixty-eight great pilgrimage-sites live inside the person whose heart is full of the One.
Every holy river fits inside one heart that is full of the One.
ih man kaasee sabh tirath — in this mind are Kaasee and all the holy places. The scriptures are here too, as the True Guru explains. athsath tirath — the sixty-eight holy places, the full old list of India's sacred river-crossings. They all stay with a person whose heart is full of the One.
This is not disrespect for pilgrimage. It honors what pilgrimage was for: cleaning the inside. Think of a backpack that holds everything you need for the whole day. Fill the heart, and you carry every sacred river inside you. Nothing outside is forbidden. Everything outside is simply brought home.
If everything holy you've ever sought is already 'inside,' what would change about how you look for it?
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