Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Kind One, gentle with the small, healer of every hurt — without You there is no shelter I would rather have.
Lift me up out of this deep, churning sea; I have come, and I am staying, in Your care.
This one says asking for help is not weakness; it is coming home. The shabad ends where it keeps coming back: to shelter.
Deen da-i-aal pooran dukh bhanjan — the perfect One, kind to the humble, breaker of pain. Kaadh layho sansaar saagar meh — lift me out of the world-ocean. This is not a wish to run away from life. It is a wish to be steadied in it, like a swimmer reaching for a friend's hand in rough waves.
Parabh sarnaa-ee means taking shelter in the One. It is the honest answer to the pride the shabad began with. Not "my strength is my own," but "I am held."
When you feel like you are sinking, who or what do you reach for?
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