Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
And Ravi Daas — that's me — is soaked through with love for the One,
so by grace, I too am safe and carried home.
This one is Ravi Daas quietly adding himself to the list of people the One's love has carried home.
Jan ravidaas raam rang raataa means "servant Ravi Daas is dyed in the One's love." Raam here is a name for the One. Rang means color. Picture a white shirt dipped in bright dye until every thread holds the color. That is how full of love he feels. Gur parsaad means "by the Guru's grace," a gift freely given. By that grace, he says, he will not go to a place of suffering.
He names himself last, after Kabir and Naam Dayv. He is not boasting. He is joining the company of the loved.
Look at the three of them together: a weaver, a cloth-printer, and a cobbler, someone who made and mended shoes. In their day, many people looked down on these trades. Yet all three are honored to this day, only because they loved the One with full hearts. The One's love lifts anyone who turns to it, whatever family or job they come from. If them, then anyone. If them, then you.
What does it mean that three ordinary, humble workers became three of the most honored saints of all?
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