Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Dear One forgives, then draws me close and folds me right into the whole.
I do not come with a pile of good deeds, but the Perfect Guide blends me in anyway, like I belong.
So many hearts have been welcomed this way, just by taking the true Word in. They climbed aboard the guide's sturdy boat, and it carried them safely across the wide, rough sea of life.
har jee-o aapay bakhas milaa-ay — the Dear One forgives and unites: the Rahau. gunheen ham apraaDhee... poorai satgur la-ay ralaa-ay — the virtueless one blended in by the Perfect Guru, rendered as belonging by grace, not self-condemnation. bhaojal paar utaarian... berhai chaarh — carried across the bhaojal (world-ocean) on the Guru's boat; 'terrifying' softened to 'wide, rough.' Forgiveness and belonging.
When has someone made you feel like you truly belonged?
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