Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Inside you there is a hidden city, and your own body is its walls and gates.
Deep in the highest room of that city, in a place beyond all your busy thoughts, the True One makes a home.
That home never crumbles and never grows dirty. The One built it, and the One keeps it shining.
Dakhanee is a southern dialect, and its flavor runs through the whole hymn. The 'Tenth Gate' (dasvaa duaar) is the inner doorway of awareness: the body has nine visible openings, and this is the tenth, hidden one. 'Gagnandar' is the sky-city, the open space of pure consciousness. The divine lives within the human body itself, nearer than any distant temple.
Where do you go quiet enough to notice the still place inside you?
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