Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Your good qualities are endless, and honestly I don't really know even one of them — so gently teach me. Give me a little.
Nanak prays: listen, my Beloved. I feel like I am sinking like a heavy stone — reach down and lift me up.
The close is pure, tender petition. Mai moorakh — "I am a fool" — is softened here to gentle self-address ("I don't really know even one"), following the rule that moorakh becomes humility, not self-attack. The famous closing image: dubdaa pathar leejai — "I am sinking like a stone, please lift me." It is empty-handedness reaching for grace, not self-condemnation. Notice there is no despair in it: it is the trusting cry of a child who knows they will be caught. This "sinking stone / lift me" motif recurs across Nanak's Sorath and beyond.
When you feel overwhelmed, who or what can you reach out to for help?
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