Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I feel small, and the One feels so high above — how could we ever meet? Yet the Teacher, full of kindness, joined me, making me lovely through the Word.
Meeting through the Word, the small self dissolves and I revel in joyful love.
My resting place turned comfortable the moment I became pleasing to the One, absorbed in His Name. That heart is truly blessed which walks in step with the Teacher. I feel small, and the One feels so high — yet, through the Teacher, we meet.
ham neevee prabh at oochaa — I am low, God is very high: the felt gap between a small self and the vast One. The pauri answers the gap not by the small self climbing but by grace reaching down, gur maylee baho kirpaa dhaaree. aap gavaa-ay, the small self dissolves, and the meeting happens. We keep neevee as honest smallness before something vast, not self-contempt. sohagan saa vadbhaagee je chalai satgur bhaa-ay — blessed is the heart that walks in step with the Teacher's will.
When something felt too big or too far above you, who helped bridge the distance?
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