Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Palms pressed together, I lay my prayer before my Master, holding the One in mind.
Reaching out a hand, the One lifted me and wiped my wrongs away.
A shabad of rescue told in the simplest gestures. The devotee prays with "palms pressed together" — the universal posture of humility — and the One responds with a gesture of its own: "giving me His hand." The image is of being reached for and pulled up, the way you'd grab a hand held out to a person who's slipped. And the reaching hand also "erased all my sins" — rescue and forgiveness in a single motion. Prayer here is not a transaction but a hand reaching up meeting a hand reaching down.
When have you reached out for help and found something already reaching back toward you?
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