I stopped searching outside, and found the jewel already home.
The Arc
The shabad opens with the great turn inward: the Teacher shows that the One is not somewhere far off but within the home of the heart. From there it moves through the priceless jewel that can only be received (never bought), the unstruck music that rises when the mind is quiet, the rough mind slowly shaped into something good, and a close in sahaj — natural ease — where doubt is gone and one is at home in the One's presence.
Key Vocabulary
Ghar hee maahi — within the home of the heart — the One found where we already are
Maanak / amol — the jewel, beyond price — received as grace, never purchased
Anhad shabad / dasam duaar — the unstruck sound, the tenth gate — inner stillness rendered as a quiet music and sweetness
Aghar gharyo — the unshapeable shaped — the mind mastered
Sahaj — natural ease, effortless poise
Themes and Cross-Connections
The "stopped searching outside" opening rhymes with the musk-deer image elsewhere in the tradition (the good is within; we search without). Aghar gharyo is Maaroo's inner battle in miniature: the only war worth winning is with one's own restlessness.
For Raag Maaroo
Maaroo is the raag of the battlefield and of mortality. Here Guru Arjan turns the fight fully inward — no enemy but the untamed mind, no victory but ease.
I stopped searching outside, and found the jewel already home.
The Arc
The shabad opens with the great turn inward: the Teacher shows that the One is not somewhere far off but within the home of the heart. From there it moves through the priceless jewel that can only be received (never bought), the unstruck music that rises when the mind is quiet, the rough mind slowly shaped into something good, and a close in sahaj — natural ease — where doubt is gone and one is at home in the One's presence.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The "stopped searching outside" opening rhymes with the musk-deer image elsewhere in the tradition (the good is within; we search without). Aghar gharyo is Maaroo's inner battle in miniature: the only war worth winning is with one's own restlessness.
For Raag Maaroo
Maaroo is the raag of the battlefield and of mortality. Here Guru Arjan turns the fight fully inward — no enemy but the untamed mind, no victory but ease.
Last updated: 2026-07-09