The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 417

0 foolish woman, let go thy doubt! by love thy beloved and thou are one. Wherever thou goest, there he is present.

(In) the sport of the battle-field ' they mount horses and seize the stocks of the guns. (Whose) mind (is) with the geese, he delights (in) the flight of a cock.

Paurt. Who (with his) tongue utters (and with his) ears hears Hari, he is saved, 0 friend! Those hands are pure, which with faith write the praise of Hari. Ablution at the sixtj'-eight Tirthas and all the meritorious actions are done by them. They are rescued from the ocean of the world, the fort of sensuality is conquered. Nanak (says): them he applies to his skii't and saves, by whom God is served, 0 friend!

That business is a bad profit, (in which) the One does not come into one's mind. Nanak (says): those bodies burst, by whom the Lord is forgotten.

Sloh II. From a goblin they are made a Devta by that creator. All disciples are saved by him, by the Lord (their) affairs are adjusted. The false calumniators are thrown down by him in (his) court. The Lord of Nanak is great, he himself prepares and arranges (everything).

Pauri. The Lord is endless and has no bounds whatever, all is his doing. The Lord is unattainable, inapprehensible, the trust of the creatures. Giving his hand (to them) he cherishes (them), filling and supporting (is his) doing. He himself is kind and forgiving; (who) mutters the True one, is crossing. What pleases thee, that is good; Xanak, (thy) slave, (is in thy) asylum.

XXL LIV. Slok I.; maTiald V. To him no hunger whatever remains, who has that Lord. Nanak (says): every one is saved, who clings to his feet.

' M3^ s.f. (Khuddi) the battle-field, areua.

458 KACr GAFRI; THE BHAGAT KABIK, I.-III.

Slok II.; mahald Y. Nanak (says): (whose) patron the Lord is, he has no hunger by any means.

Paurl. (Whose) heart is imbued with love to Govind, he acquires true enjoyment. Who entertains affection for the name of Hari, he has elephants and horses.

(Who) in meditating (on Hari) does not draw back (his) face, he has dominion, wealth and much pleasure.

The musician is begging at the gate of the Lord, he never gives up (his) gate.!N"anak has in his heart and body this desire, he continually longs for the Lord.

Om! The true name is the creator, the Supreme Spirit.

I, who was burning, have now obtained the water of Ram.

By the water of Ram my burning body has been extinguished.

(1). (Though) one go to the forest in order to subdue (his) mind:

Without the water (of Ram) that Lord is not obtained.

(2). The fire, by which gods and men are burnt:

(From that) the burning people are saved by the water of Ram.

(3). The ocean of existence is in the ocean of happiness (= God).

(Though) people go on drinking, (yet) the water is not exhausted.

(4). Kablr says: adore the bow-holder (= Yishnu)!

By the water of Ram my thirst is quenched.

0 Madhava, (my) thirst for water does not cease! (In drinking) the water the fire increases still more. (1). Thou art the ocean, I am the fish of the water.

1 dwell in the water, without the water I am done for. (2). Thou art the cage, I am thy parrot.

(4). Thou art the Guru, I am thy new disciple (= apprentice).

Kabir says: join me at the time of the end!

(1). When he (the Supreme) is considered by me as the only One: Then why are the people annoyed by it?

RAG GAUrT; the BHAGAT KABIR, IV.— VI. 459