Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Only You know Your own secret — You are the perfect Maker of all that is.
Keep me safe in Your shelter, a small one with no other support, and lift me up.
Tumraa maram tumaa hee jaani-aa — 'only You know Your own maram, Your mystery' — the unknowable vastness motif once more. Tum pooran purakh bidhaatay — the perfect shaping Presence. Then the trusting request: raakho saran anaath deen ka-o — 'keep the anaath (one with no other support) and deen (the humble, lowly one) in Your shelter,' karahu hamaaree gaatay — 'and raise me up / grant me release' (gaatay, deliverance). Deen — lowliness — is held as empty-handed humility toward grace, the trusting smallness of a child, not shame.
When have you felt safest — and what made you feel that way?
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