Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
As the cane is in the blind man's hand — so is the Name in mine.
The Name of the Lord is my support, night and day and morning.
After the show and the game, the hymn's tenderest image, and one of Guru Nanak's humblest: the blind man's cane. Not a torch that restores sight — a cane: something gripped in the dark, tapping the next step, making the unseen walkable. The confession inside the simile is complete: I do not see the way; I am not promised sight on demand; and I am not lost, because what I hold reaches ahead of what I know. Faith, in this verse, is not vision. It is contact — night, day, and morning — with what guides.
When you cannot see how things will work out, what do you actually hold on to?
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