Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Those who eat their meals in other people's homes should not be called renunciates.
For the sake of their own stomachs, they put on all kinds of holy robes.
Nanak says: they alone are renunciates who travel inward, into their own soul.
They search for their Beloved and find Him, and they live in the home of their own heart.
Robes worn for the belly and food taken from others' homes are not marks of freedom; the renunciate worth the name travels into his own soul. The Beloved-within picture, living in the home of one's own inner self, echoes the earlier shalok of finding the Beloved while sitting at home.
When did going inward give you something going outward could not?
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