Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
This is who I am, and this is who You are: whatever I have gotten wrong, You are the One who lifts it right off me. Your home is a beautiful place.
You shaped everyone, and after shaping us You keep on blessing us — giving body, breath, and life itself. So I ask simply: keep being kind to me, Merciful One.
The Pause line — maadho ham aisay too aisaa — is the hinge of the whole song: "this is what we are, and this is what You are." It sets our smallness and the One's greatness side by side, not to shame us but to rest us. Paap khandan is often translated "Destroyer of sins"; more gently, the One who breaks apart whatever weighs on us. Having fashioned every being, the One does not walk away — it keeps giving soul, body, and the breath of life.
What is one thing you have been given today that you did nothing to earn?
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