Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Reach in and lift me out of all of that, my Master. Worn out, I have come to Your shelter.
Nanak says: I pray to the One — in the Sangat, carry me across, though I come with empty hands.
A simple cry for help: reach in and pull me out.
In tay kaadh layho mayray su-aamee — lift me out of all these, my Master. Think of a child who slipped into a pool, reaching up for a grown-up's hand. Haar paray tum saaran means "worn out, I have come to Your shelter."
Nanak calls himself rank, a poor person with nothing in his hands. That is not about feeling worthless. It just means he is not bringing anything to trade. He trusts that in the saaDhsang, the Sangat — people gathered together to remember the One — the One carries even the empty-handed across.
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