ਪਤਿਤ ਪਾਵਨ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਬਿਰਦੁ ਤੁਮ੍ਹ੍ਹਾਰੋ ਹਮਰੇ ਦੋਖ ਰਿਦੈ ਮਤ ਧਾਰਹੁ ॥
patit paavan parabh birad tumHaaro hamray dokh ridai mat Dhaarahu.
It is Your Natural Way, God, to purify sinners; please do not keep my errors in Your Heart.
ਜੀਵਨ ਪ੍ਰਾਨ ਹਰਿ ਧਨੁ ਸੁਖੁ ਤੁਮ ਹੀ ਹਉਮੈ ਪਟਲੁ ਕ੍ਰਿਪਾ ਕਰਿ ਜਾਰਹੁ ॥੧॥
jeevan paraan har Dhan sukh tum hee ha-umai patal kirpaa kar jaarahu. ||1||
You are my life, my breath of life, O Lord, my wealth and peace; be merciful to me, and burn away the curtain of egotism. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
It is Your way to make things clean and new, so please do not hold my mistakes against me.
You are my life, my breath, my wealth, my peace; gently burn away the curtain of ego (the feeling that I am separate and all on my own).
The feeling of being all alone is a curtain that can lift.
patit paavan -- the One who makes clean again; birad -- the settled kindness that does this. ha-umai patal -- the curtain of ego, the sense of being cut off and alone, pictured as something to be gently burned away so the light comes through. Ego here is a thing to heal, not a crime.
A Question to Sit With
When you feel cut off from everyone, what helps you feel connected again?
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