ਅੰਧ ਬਿਲਾ ਤੇ ਕਾਢਹੁ ਕਰਤੇ ਕਿਆ ਨਾਹੀ ਘਰਿ ਤੇਰੈ ॥
anDh bilaa tay kaadhahu kartay ki-aa naahee ghar tayrai.
Lift me up out of the dark dungeon, O Creator Lord; what is there which is not in Your home?
ਨਾਮੁ ਅਧਾਰੁ ਦੀਜੈ ਨਾਨਕ ਕਉ ਆਨਦ ਸੂਖ ਘਨੇਰੈ ॥੨॥੧੨॥ ਛਕੇ ੨ ॥
naam aDhaar deejai naanak ka-o aanad sookh ghanayrai. ||2||12|| chhakay 2.
Bless Nanak with the Support of Your Name, that he may find great happiness and peace. ||2||12|| Chhakay 2.
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Lift me out of the dark pit, Creator — what is there that is not in Your home?
Bless Nanak with the support of Your Name, for great happiness and peace.
The One's house lacks nothing — so you can ask with confidence, knowing the Giver who has everything can give what you need.
The close is a plea to be lifted "out of the dark dungeon" — the trapped, low places of a life — and a lovely rhetorical question: "what is there which is not in Your home?" The One's house lacks nothing; every good you could need is already there. So the asking is confident: the Giver who has everything can surely give the one thing requested — the support of the Name. This closes the second Chhakay (set of six).
A Question to Sit With
If the source of everything lacks nothing, how would that change the confidence of your asking?
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