Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I've planted love for the feet of the One's students deep in my mind and body.
My life-friends, students of the teaching, my family of the heart — teach me, so I can melt into the One's merging.
The Pause line intensifies the downward reverence: love "for the feet of the Guru's Sikhs" — not even the Guru here, but the students, the ordinary fellow-seekers. Ram Das asks them to teach him, so he might "merge." This is a beautiful dismantling of hierarchy: the seeker learns from fellow seekers, and greatness lies in being teachable by anyone who carries a little of the light. Merger is the goal; humility is the road.
Who could you learn from that your pride might tell you is 'below' you? What might they teach you?
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