Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Every single thing that was ever created is searching for the One. But only a rare, lucky few actually get to see it. Its home is so high, so vast, so far beyond what eyes can find — and yet the teacher showed me that palace, pointed it out to me directly.
This pauri sets up a stunning contrast. First, the universality of the search: jaa kau khojeh sarab upaae — "the One whom all created things (sarab upaae) are searching for (khojeh)." Everything that exists — every creature, every person, knowingly or not — is seeking the One. The whole of creation is, at bottom, one vast search for its source. This is a profound claim: the restless seeking we see everywhere, in everyone, is at root the homesickness of creation for the One that made it.
But then the rarity: vadbhaagee darsan ko virlaa paae — "only a virlaa (rare one), by great good fortune (vadbhaag), receives the darshan." All search; few find. Why the gap? Because the One's dwelling is ooch apaar agochar thaanaa — "a thaan (place) that is ooch (high), apaar (boundless), agochar (beyond the senses)." It cannot be found by ordinary searching, however sincere, because it is not located anywhere the senses or the climbing mind can reach. The search is universal, but the destination is beyond the reach of the searching itself.
And here is the resolution: oh mahal guroo dekhaaee — "that mahal (palace, mansion) the Guru showed me." The unreachable place that all of creation searches for and cannot find — the Guru simply points to it. The seeker does not finally locate it by searching harder; the Guru shows it (dekhaaee). This is the recurring logic of the whole section: the One is found not by the seeker's effort but by the Guru's revelation. All beings search; the Guru is the one who, by grace, lifts the veil and says, there — that is the palace, it was here all along. What the entire cosmos hunts for in vain, the Guru gives in a glance.
The verse says everything that exists is searching for the One, even without knowing it. Do you think the restlessness people feel might secretly be a search for something deeper? What are they really looking for?
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