Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You are like fine, shining silk, and I am like a humble little worm.
Yet I only wish to live in the company of good people, O One. I want to live like a bee among the flowers, happy with its honey.
Ravi Daas gives two more small, tender pictures. Both say the same thing: let me stay close to what is good.
First: tum makh-tool supayd sapee-al ham bapuray jas keeraa — You are the fine silk thread, white and yellow, and I am like a poor worm. It is a lovely picture, because silk actually comes from a humble worm. Even the plainest creature carries something beautiful inside it.
Second, his wish. He wants to live in the satsangat, the gathering of good and holy people, jaisay maDhup makheeraa — like the bee with its honey. A bee lives among the flowers, gathering sweetness. It is at home in the very thing that feeds it.
So find your flowers: the kind, warm people and places that make you better. Live among them and gather the honey of goodness. Home is wherever the good company is.
Where are the 'flowers' — the good and nourishing people or places — that you'd love to live among?
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