Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Let my heart become humble — as gentle and low as the dust under everyone's feet, thinking myself no better than anyone.
Let me lay down that clever, prideful I-know-best voice.
Give me the gift of loving You with my whole self. And what great good fortune it is — with that, I have found You.
Sabh kee rayn ho-ay — may my mind become the dust of all: an image of radical humility that also levels every rank between people, since dust is beneath everyone equally. Aha(n)-budh is the clever, prideful intellect the pauri asks to release. The gift requested is bhagat, loving devotion, and the closing note is joy: vadbhaagee, by great good fortune, the One is found. The caste-leveling force of the dust image is kept in view. Guru Arjan signs the shabad.
What would change if you truly believed no one was above or below anyone else?
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