Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The road to the Beloved is steep and full of high, hard hills, and all I have to carry me is one weak little ox.
So I make one simple prayer to the One: please keep safe the small treasure I'm carrying.
Bhagat Ravi Daas, in Gauree Bairaagan (a longing, wistful mode). He pictures himself as a traveling trader crossing rough mountain country with a single scrawny ox — an honest, humble picture of himself on the spiritual journey with very little strength of his own. His "capital" (poonjee) is the small store of good he carries — his love, his devotion. And his one prayer is disarmingly simple: keep my treasure safe. Not "make me great" — just "protect the little I have." It's the empty-handed trust the guidelines love: leaning on grace, not on his own power.
When a journey feels too big for you, what small thing can you ask for help to protect?
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