Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The sweetest thing is already brimming inside your own home — inside you — but it is easy to miss and go looking for it everywhere else.
It is like the musk-deer, who carries a beautiful scent in its own body and runs all over the forest searching for where that smell is coming from.
A rare few grow quiet enough to notice, and suddenly they find the One right there within them.
Then body and mind cool and settle, and even the taste of ordinary life turns sweet.
It is through the Word that the Name rises up in you, and through the Word that you feel joined to the whole.
This is one of the Vaar's great images. The musk-deer (kastooree mirag) has a fragrant gland in its own belly yet roams the forest chasing the scent — a perfect picture of seeking outside for what is already within (ghar hee meh amrit bharpoor hai). Guru Amar Das ties the discovery entirely to the Shabad, the Word: sabday hee naa-o oopjai — through the Word the Name wells up; amrit ayko sabad hai — the Word itself is the nectar. Note the healing vocabulary again: tan man seetal ho-i-aa — body and mind grow cool. The teaching is quietly revolutionary for a child: the thing you most need is not somewhere far away to be earned; it is already here, waiting to be noticed.
Have you ever hunted all over for something and then realized it was right there with you the whole time?
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