Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I have spent so much of my time eating and drinking, playing and laughing, drifting from one thing to the next without ever arriving — as if I had wandered a very long way indeed.
Now I turn and ask: lift me up out of this vast, restless sea of coming and going. Nanak leans his whole weight on Your support — that alone is what he trusts to hold him.
After a long drift, the heart turns and leans its whole weight on the One.
Khaat peet khaylat hasat — eating, drinking, playing, laughing — the everyday drift, named without shame. Bhramay janam anayk, wandering through many births, is felt as restlessness: as if I had wandered a very long way. Bhavjal, the world-ocean, is this vast, restless sea. The close, tayree tayk — Your support alone — is the lean-your-whole-weight surrender that recurs through this stretch.
When life feels like one busy thing after another, what helps you stop drifting and steady yourself?
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