The Friend who stays when all others go
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One is your helper there, where no one else can help you.
The One washes away millions of wrongs in a single moment, like chalk off a slate.
The One gives gifts and never regrets giving them.
The One forgives once and for all, and never calls you to account again.
The One stays beside you where no one else can, and forgives all the way, never bringing it up again.
"Kot apraaDh" (millions of faults) and "Dhovai" (washes) make cleansing, not punishment, the picture. "Aykaa bakhas fir bahur na bulaavai" — forgives once and never calls you to account again — is a picture of total, non-transactional grace. Self-condemnation has no foothold here; the whole weight falls on the completeness of the washing.
Is there a mistake you keep replaying and holding against yourself? What would it feel like to let it be washed away?
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