Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I have slipped up over and over. I feel like a stone that can't float.
But I can still be carried across the water. I'm lifted up, in the company of good people.
This one says: even if you feel too heavy to float, you can still be carried across.
The verse says, "I am a heavy stone sinking down, but the Lord has carried me across, with His humble servants." Paathar bhaaray means heavy stones. A stone cannot float. Left alone, it sinks.
Yet this stone is carried. Grace lifts what cannot lift itself, and good company is the boat. Picture a heavy box that you can't lift alone. Then your friends grab the other corners, and together you carry it across the room. Calling yourself a stone here is honest smallness, not hating yourself.
When something feels too heavy to do alone, who helps carry you through?
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