Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Everything you are looking for is already inside your own home — there is nothing out there to go chasing. Whoever hunts for it outside just gets lost, fooled, wandering in circles. But the one who, by the teacher's kindness, finds it *within* — that person is happy and at peace, both inside and out, everywhere they go.
This Rahao states one of the most important and recurring truths of the whole section, as plainly as it can be put: sabh kichh ghar meh, baahar naahee — "everything is within the ghar (the home, the inner self); there is nothing baahar (outside)." The treasure, the One, the fulfillment you seek — all of it is already inside you. Nothing you truly need is "out there."
And so the warning: baahar tolai so bharam bhulaahee — "the one who tolai (searches, gropes) baahar (outside) is bharam bhulaahee — lost in confusion, deluded by wandering." Recall bharam throughout the section — the directionless wandering of the lost seeker (Shabad 10, Shabad 15). Here its cause is named: looking outside for what is inside. Like searching every room of the house for the glasses on your own face, the outward search is doomed not because the seeker isn't trying, but because they're looking in the wrong direction entirely.
The resolution: gur parsaadee jinee antar paaiaa — "by the Guru's parsaad (grace), those who found [it] antar (within)." You don't find the inner treasure by searching harder; you find it by the Guru's grace turning your gaze inward. And the fruit: so antar baahar suhelaa — "that one is suhelaa (happy, at ease) both inside and outside." Here is a beautiful point: when you find the One within, you become peaceful everywhere — inside and out. The peace is not confined to quiet inner moments; it follows you into the noisy outer world too. Because the source of peace is now carried within, no outer situation can take it away. The Rahao sets the shabad's whole movement: stop searching outside, let grace turn you inward, and find a peace that holds everywhere.
The verse says searching "outside" for what is "inside" is what makes people lost. What are some things people chase out in the world that they might actually already have within themselves?
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