Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You are the Great Being, vast and beyond reach, the Master of the world. I am a tiny insect, a little worm You made.
O One who is kind to the humble, please be kind to me. I long for the feet of the Guru, the True Guru.
Feeling small before the vast One opens your hands to ask for kindness.
Guru Ram Das calls the One vad purakh vad agam — the Great Being, too vast to reach. Then he calls himself keeray kiram — a tiny insect, a little worm that the One made.
It is honest wonder, like lying on the grass at night and seeing how many stars there are. Feeling small like that opens our hands. So he turns to deen da-i-aal — the One who is gentle with the lowly. And he asks for one thing: to sit at the feet of the Guru, the true teacher.
When has something huge — the ocean, the night sky — made you feel small in a good way?
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