ਬਾਬਾ ਮੂਰਖੁ ਹਾ ਨਾਵੈ ਬਲਿ ਜਾਉ ॥
baabaa moorakh haa naavai bal jaa-o.
O Baba, I am so foolish, but I am a sacrifice to the Name.
ਤੂ ਕਰਤਾ ਤੂ ਦਾਨਾ ਬੀਨਾ ਤੇਰੈ ਨਾਮਿ ਤਰਾਉ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
too kartaa too daanaa beenaa tayrai naam taraa-o. ||1|| rahaa-o.
You are the Creator, You are wise and all-seeing. Through Your Name, we are carried across. ||1||Pause||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Baba, I know so little, and I give my whole self to the Naam.
You are the Creator, wise and all-seeing. Your Naam carries every one of us across.
The Naam carries everyone across, the clever and the slow alike.
Honest smallness before something vast: baabaa moorakh haa, gentle self-address without shame. The One is daanaa beenaa, wise and all-seeing; tayrai naam taraa-o, through the Naam we are carried across. Grace does the carrying, and cleverness has nothing to add.
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