Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Lift me out of the dark pit, O Maker — what is there that isn't in your home?
Bless Nanak with the support of your Name, that he may find deep happiness and peace.
The verse asks to be lifted from a "dark dungeon" — the pit of forgetting, isolation, the closed loop of the anxious self. And then a line that quietly holds everything: "what is there which is not in Your home?" (echoing Anand Sahib). It is the recognition that the One lacks nothing — every good you could ask for is already in its house. So the only real request is not for things but for the Name itself: give me You, and the happiness and peace come with it. This is the turn from a prayer of lack to a prayer of the one gift that contains all others. It closes Guru Arjan's "Second Set of Six."
If you could ask for only one thing, and it contained everything good, what would you be asking for?
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