Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
It's easy to get dizzy chasing shiny things and miss what really matters.
All the while, the pure One is living quietly inside you — that's the secret worth discovering.
This one says: the treasure you're looking for is already inside you.
Mad maa-i-aa kai bha-i-o baavro: a person gets dizzy on maa-i-aa. Maa-i-aa means the glitter of things, all the shiny stuff that pulls at us. Dizzy like that, they can't see even a little wisdom.
Yet ghat hee bheetar basat niranjan: the pure One lives right inside the heart. Niranjan means spotless and pure. And taa ko maram na jaanaa: they don't know this secret.
There is an old story about the musk deer. It smells a lovely scent and runs all over the forest looking for it. It never learns that the scent comes from its own body. We are often like that deer.
What is something important that's easy to overlook because it's so close?
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