Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
'Be kind to me, and carry me through.'
I feel small and I've slipped up — but I'm still Yours, and I come for shelter.
'I'm like a stone that can't float — so please carry me across the water.'
The shabad closes with one of Gurbani's most humble and beloved images: mai patthar... boodat paakhaan taar — "I am a stone; carry me across and save me." A stone can't float; left alone it sinks. So the prayer is simply: You carry me. It's the purest expression of grace — not "I'll swim harder" but "lift me, for I cannot do it alone." The self-lowering ("worthless sinner") is rendered as honest smallness, not self-hatred. The colophon (||4||4||) closes. For a child: when you feel like a stone that can't float, you can simply ask to be carried — and you will be.
When something feels too heavy to do alone, who can you ask to help carry you through?
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