Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I have sold my body and mind to the teaching. I have given my whole self.
I was searching everywhere — through all three worlds — and as I turned toward the truth, I found what I was looking for.
The True One, who lives in every heart, is found within — through the teaching, through grace.
The closing pauri completes the merchant metaphor with the ultimate transaction: the surrender of the self to the teaching. Not a loss — the most profitable trade possible. What is given is the ego-driven self; what is received is the recognition of the true self.
"Searching through the three worlds" — above, below, around — and finding the answer within (antar) through the Guru's grace. The external search inevitably ends at the internal discovery.
Have you ever held on to something — a belief, an identity, an image of yourself — that you eventually had to let go of? What opened up when you did?
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