The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 420

(1). As a fish that leaves the water and is outside of it: (So I was) in a former birth, (when) destitute of austerity.

Pause. Say, 0 Ram, what is now my state? Benares is left (by me) and my intellect has become little. (2). (My) whole life is lost in Shivpuri ( = Benares). At the time of death I have risen and come to Maghar. (3). Many years I have practised austerities at KasT.

' With this fourteenth verse a line of Arjiin (Pause) is mixed np, wliich is rarefiilly noted down. The remark itself contains a sharp censure of Kabir.

EAG GATJRI; THE BHAGAT KABIR, XVI. XVII. 463

Death has come on in the dwellings of ilaghar.'

(4). Kasi and ilaghar I consider as the same.

How shall I come across by slight devotion?

(5). The Guru, the elephant, says: everybody knows Shiva.'

(1). The body, (which) they rub with sandal-perfume: That body is burnt with wood.

J'ause. What is the greatness of this body and wealth? It falls on the ground and does not go to that side. (2). VVTio sleeps at night and is given to lust in day-time: He does not take the name of Hari one moment.

(3). In (whose) hand is a rope (and who) eats betel-leaf with his mouth: (That) thief is tightly bound at the time of death.

(4). "WTio by means of the instruction of the Guru sings ardently the excellences of Hari: He obtains happiness by uttering: Earn, Ram! (5). (In whom) he mercifully makes firm the name: (In him) Hari makes dwell the scent and perfume of Hari. (6). KabTr says: be thoughtful, 0 blind one! True is Ram, false is every worldly occupation.

Verses consisting of three and four lines severally.

(1). From the restraint of the passions pleasures' have been made on the contrary.

The pain is gone, happiness and tranquillity are enjoyed.

The enemies have on the contrary become friends.

The Sakats have on the contrary become virtuous men in their mind.

Now all is considered by me as happiness.

Tranquillity set in, when Govind was known, (by me).

(2). Crores of troubles were (in my) body.

(Now) on the contrary meditation is made (by me) with comfort and ease.

(Him) no sickness enters nor the three classes of affliction.*

(3). Now (my) mind on the contrary has become eternal.

Then it {i.e. the mind) is known, when one dies whilst living.

Kablr says: he is absorbed with comfort and ease:

(Who) himself is not afraid nor frightens others.

' KaljTr lived first at Kasi (Benares), aud removed in his old nge to the town of Maghar (y(S[^r3), where he died, aud where his tomb is still visited by Hindus aud Musalmans.

" The sense of this line is somewhat obscure; it seems to be: everybody knows Sliiva to be the Supreme Being, acknowledges him as such.

^ HTH must here (according to the context) signify: pleasure, delight.

464 EAG GAURI; THE BHAGAT KABIE, XVIII.-XXI.