Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The same One who gently shaped you and kept you safe before you were even born — that One is watching over you still.
When the path gets tangled and confusing, no one else can steady you the way that One can.
Resting in Your shelter, I feel truly safe. I do not need to lean on anything else — You are enough.
Garabh kunt meh jineh dhaari-o — the One who held and formed you in the womb before birth. Here the womb image is tender, not fearful: the same care that shaped you continues now. The literal's wilderness of corruption is softened to a tangled, confusing path, keeping the teaching that only the One truly steadies us. Saran samrath, aan nahee nihor — the One's shelter is enough, with no need to rely on anything else. Guru Arjan signs the shabad.
When has someone taken care of you before you were even old enough to remember it?
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