Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I've come to trust the One completely — that's Naam Dayv speaking.
So I've let go of fasting on the special days and trekking to the holy sites; I don't need them to reach what's already here.
Having found the living connection, Naam Dayv lets the outer machinery fall away: "I have stopped fasting on the eleventh day (ekadashi)... why should I bother to go on pilgrimages?" This isn't contempt for the devout; it's the natural result of arriving. Once you're home, you stop buying maps and train tickets to get there. The tradition consistently relocates the sacred from special dates and distant shrines into the present heart — and here a Bhagat lives it out plainly. The pilgrimage was always toward the One who is already, as the last shabad said, the very water you swim in.
If what you were looking for turned out to be right where you are, would you still need the long journey to find it?
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