Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The treasure of love is found by the Gurmukh — the one who contemplates the essence of reality.
The bride loses her selfishness and adorns herself with the Guru's Shabad.
Right there, within her own home, she finds her Husband — through infinite love for the Guru.
Paraym padaarath paa-ee-ai, gurmu-kh tat veechaar — the treasure of love (praym padaarath) is obtained by the Gurmukh, through tat veechaar (contemplation of the essence, the core reality). Not through reading, not through pilgrimage, not through robes — through the Gurmukh's orientation: face turned toward the teaching, mind in genuine contemplation of what is most real.
Saa dhan aap gavaa-i-aa, gur kai sabad seegaar — the bride erases her selfishness (aap gavaa-i-aa — literally: loses her own self, the ego-self) and adorns herself with the Guru's Shabad. Here the seegaar (adornment) that was useless without the Husband in Shabad 108 finally becomes the right adornment: not gold, but the Shabad. And the Shabad adornment requires the loss of the self-constructed adornment. The pride that sent the bride climbing mountains must be relinquished before the Shabad can settle in.
Ghar hee so pir paa-i-aa — within her own home, she finds her Husband. The direct answer to Pauri 2's wandering: come home. The Husband is here. He always was here. The search that went to mountains and foreign lands has ended in the one place it did not look. Ghar (home) — the inner home, the place within where the divine dwells undisturbed, waiting for the bride to return.
What would you have to give up about your sense of self to actually find what you are looking for — and does that feel like loss or like relief?
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