ਬਾਬਾ ਮੈ ਕੁਚੀਲੁ ਕਾਚਉ ਮਤਿਹੀਨ ॥
baabaa mai kucheel kaacha-o matiheen.
O Baba, I am filthy, shallow and totally without understanding.
ਨਾਮ ਬਿਨਾ ਕੋ ਕਛੁ ਨਹੀ ਗੁਰਿ ਪੂਰੈ ਪੂਰੀ ਮਤਿ ਕੀਨ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
naam binaa ko kachh nahee gur poorai pooree mat keen. ||1|| rahaa-o.
Without the Naam, no one is anything; the Perfect Guru has made my intellect perfect. ||1||Pause||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
O Baba, I am messy, unripe, and short on understanding.
Without the Naam, no one is anything. The perfect Guru has made my understanding whole.
Come honest and unfinished; the Guru meets you there and makes you whole.
Kucheel, kaacho, matiheen: messy, unripe, without understanding. These are the honest words of someone who arrives with empty hands before grace. The poori mat, the understanding made whole, is the gift of the poorai gur, the perfect Guru.
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