Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When someone was very sick, the Giver of joy watched over them and kept them safe.
The Supreme One reached toward them with kindness, and they were held through the hardest part.
The literal recalls a specific rescue — someone saved from a dangerous illness by grace (the source names smallpox, a much-feared sickness of that time); it does not say who the person was or how old. The point for a young reader is gentle and universal: in a frightening illness, there was protection, watching-over, kindness. Bihaaree means the Giver of joy or delight; kirpaa dhaaree — "grace was extended." We keep the tenderness — someone frightening-ill was cared for and came through — and let the specific disease stay quietly in the background. Illness is met here with mercy, not dread.
Who has watched over you and kept you safe when you were sick or scared?
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