Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Here is a kitchen truth: churn cream and you get butter, something rich and real rises up. Churn plain water and, no matter how long you work, you just get... water.
A lot of busy religious effort is like churning water: lots of motion, nothing gathering.
The wonderful secret is that the Unseen One is already tucked inside every single heart, including yours. The right kind of churning brings that out.
dahee viloee-ai... niklai tath — churning cream yields butter (the essence); jal matheeai jal daykheeai — churning water yields only water: effort without the true method is empty. ghat ghat day-o alakh — the unseen Divine in every heart. One of Sorath's loveliest images: the essence is already present; real practice draws it out.
What is a task where doing it with heart makes all the difference?
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