Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
No one could ever add up Your true worth — You are gentle and caring toward every living thing.
Everything that happens moves within You; I am just a small child here — what could I manage on my own?
So hold me close, the way a loving parent holds a child, and keep me safe.
The close lands on tenderness. Sarab jee-aa da-i-aalaa — compassionate to all beings — universalizes the care beyond any one group. The self-image is not shame but baal, a small child: honest smallness that opens into being held. Ji-o pitaa poot — as a father to a son — is one of Gurbani's warmest pictures of grace: protection asked for and assumed, not earned.
When have you felt safest — and who was with you?
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