Mali Gaura is among the smallest headings in the volume, another compound name, and it belongs to the group of sections that together occupy a few pages out of fourteen hundred and thirty.
The existence of that group has a consequence worth stating plainly: there is no such thing as a short Guru Granth Sahib. Selections and anthologies of Sikh scripture exist and are widely used, and none of them is the volume. The Granth as installed, read and treated as Guru is the whole of it, in its fixed order, at its fixed length, and an abridgement that dropped the small sections to save fifty pages would not be a shorter edition but a different object.
This is a structural fact rather than a devotional sentiment, and it follows from the pagination. Because every copy carries the same words on the same page, and because citation depends on that, a copy that omitted anything would break the system for every user of it. The invariance is what makes the volume usable, and invariance does not admit of degrees.
Sections like this one are therefore load-bearing out of all proportion to their length. Their contents are modest; their presence is what makes the whole a fixed quantity rather than a selection someone made.