Sikhism·Raag Bilaaval·Shabad 88
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Please Light Up My Heart

ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ ਮਹਲਾ ੫ ॥
bilaaval mehlaa 5.
Bilaaval, Fifth Mehl:
ਦਾਸ ਤੇਰੇ ਕੀ ਬੇਨਤੀ ਰਿਦ ਕਰਿ ਪਰਗਾਸੁ ॥
daas tayray kee bayntee rid kar pargaas.
This is the prayer of Your slave: please elighten my heart.
ਤੁਮ੍ਹ੍ਹਰੀ ਕ੍ਰਿਪਾ ਤੇ ਪਾਰਬ੍ਰਹਮ ਦੋਖਨ ਕੋ ਨਾਸੁ ॥੧॥
tumHree kirpaa tay paarbarahm dokhan ko naas. ||1||
By Your Mercy, O Supreme Lord God, please erase my sins. ||1||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

Here is my small prayer: fill my heart with light.

By Your kindness, let the faults I carry simply fall away.

Ask for light, and the faults fall away in it.
The deeper layer

daas tayray kee bayntee, rid kar pargaas — the prayer: light up the heart; tumHree kirpaa tay paarbarahm, dokhan ko naas — by mercy, faults fall away.

A Question to Sit With

What would it feel like to have your heart lit up inside?

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