Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You took me by the arm and drew me up out of a deep, dark place I could not climb out of on my own.
Nanak says, the Guru cut the ropes that tied me down, and gathered me back — the one who felt cut off — into belonging again.
The One reaches in and lifts out the one who is stuck.
Baah pakar kadh leenay — taking by the arm and lifting out — is a hands-on image of rescue from the andh koop, the dark well of tangled attachment. Read gently, the pit is a hard place one could not leave alone, not a punishment. Bandhan kaatay — bonds cut; bichhurat aan milaa-i-aa — the separated one rejoined. Belonging is restored.
When you have been stuck in a hard place, who reached in and helped pull you out?
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