Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
What am I? As small as a worm! What good deeds can I do? I am foolish and know so little, and still the One has saved me.
I am full of faults, heavy as a stone, yet joining the true Sangat, I am carried across to the other side.
However small or heavy you feel, the One saves you and the Sangat carries you across.
Ki-aa ham kiram means "what am I, a worm?" Ki-aa karam kamaaveh means "what deeds can I do?" Moorakh mugaDh means "foolish and ignorant." This is the honest voice of someone who knows how small they are next to the One.
Avganee-aaray paathar bhaaray means "full of faults, heavy as stones." A stone dropped in a river sinks. Set on a boat, it crosses. Satsangat mil taray taraas means "joining the true Sangat, I am carried across." The Sangat, people gathered together to remember the One, is the boat.
When have you felt small, and someone helped carry you through anyway?
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