Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Walk the path of quiet inner awareness, and your gaze turns away from the busy world and looks within. Then your eyes fill with light.
Think it over in your mind and see, wise one: who is the person at home with a family, and who is the one who has left the world behind?
When your gaze turns inward, the line between the family person and the one who left home starts to fade.
surtee kai maarag chal kai — walking the path of surtee, quiet inner awareness. Then ultee nadar pargaasee — the gaze turns around and looks inward, and everything becomes bright.
man veechaar daykh barahm gi-aanee — think it over and see, wise one. ka-un girhee ka-un udaasee — who is the girhee, the householder with a family and a job? And who is the udaasee, the one who has left the world behind?
Think of two students. One studies at home with the family nearby. The other goes off to a quiet library. What matters is not where they sit. It is whether they are learning. In the same way, the labels matter less than turning inward.
Can a regular person living a normal life be just as spiritual as a monk? What do you think?
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