Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When you quiet down the constant wanting of the mind, you merge into the True One. With a settled mind, you see clearly that everything in the world is always coming and going, never staying. Serving the True Teacher, the mind grows steady and unshakeable, and finally comes to rest in its own true home (**nij ghar**).
This verse says: when the mind stops its endless wanting, it becomes steady and finds its true home inside.
It names the problem and the destination together. The problem is mansaa, the mind's restless wanting, the craving for the next thing and the next. Mansaa maar sach samaanee means "quieting desire, they merge into the True One." This isn't about fighting your wants harshly or being hard on yourself for wanting things. The craving quiets on its own as the mind fills with what is real. A child stops grabbing at every toy once they feel truly happy and safe. When you are full of sach, truth, the wanting runs out of fuel.
What does a quiet mind see? In man deethee sabh aavan jaanee means "with this mind, they see that all things come and go." That is one of the deepest gifts of stillness: seeing clearly that nothing stays. When the mind stops grabbing long enough to really look, it notices that everything it chased is always moving. Things, moods, even people, even itself: all arriving and leaving. Nothing the world offers stays put. This isn't sad. It is clearing. Once you see that passing things can't be held, you stop wearing yourself out trying to hold water in your hands. And you turn toward what doesn't pass: sach, the True One.
So the soul finds its home. Satgur sayvay sadaa man nihchal means "serving the True Guru, the mind becomes steady forever." Nihchal means steady, unshakable. Nij ghar vaasaa paavni-aa means "they come to live in their own home." Nij ghar is "your own home," your true dwelling.
The restless mind is always wandering, from one want to the next, never arriving. The steady mind finally comes home. And the amazing thing is where home turns out to be. Not somewhere far away. It is nij ghar, your own deepest self, where the One has lived all along. All that restless wanting was just the long way around to a home that was inside you the whole time. Quiet the wanting, and you find you were already home.
When your mind finally gets quiet and stops wanting the next thing, what does that stillness feel like — and where does it feel like you are?
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