Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
As a deer, a bird and a fish, poor and low, a person goes round through these hard lives again and again.
Nanak says: O One, I am a stone. Please carry me across, so I may find peace in the Sangat.
Even when we feel as heavy as a stone, the One can carry us across.
Marig pankhee meen: a deer, a bird, a fish. The verse pictures a soul wandering through many lives and many troubles. We can hear it as a restless heart drifting far, feeling low and lost.
Then comes the image of the stone. Kaho naanak paahan prabh taarahu: Guru Nanak says, O One, I am a stone, carry me across. Paahan means stone. A stone can't swim. It sinks on its own. But a boat can carry a stone across a whole river. When the One does the lifting, even a stone gets across. The peace we look for is in saadhsangat, the Sangat — people gathered together to remember the One.
When did someone help carry you through something you couldn't do alone?
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