The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 421

(1). "WTien the body is dead, to which house does the soul go,

(Which) is attached to the passed, uubeatcn sound?

As the mind of the dumb one is pleased by sugar.

Such divine knowledge Krishna communicates.

0 mind, keep firm the breath in the Sukhraam-artery!

(2). Hake him (thy) Guru, who is not to be made again (Gui'u)!

Utter that word, which is not to be uttered again!

Take up that meditation, which is not to be taken up again!

Die in such a way, that thou must not die again!

(3). Let the Ganga and Jamna meet in the inverse direction!

Bathe without the confluence of the water in (thy) heart!

(Consider) the desires as the same! this is thy business.

Are remaining so (as they are); remain thou with Hari!

Kablr says: meditate thou on the Supreme!

Go to his house, that thou come not again!

Ram is obtained for the price of the heart.

Now that Eam is considered by me as my own.

(2). Brahma, though always speaking (of him), did not get his end.

(But) Ham comes to the house of his devotee, who is sitting (there in rest).

(3). Kabir says: I have given up my fickle mind.

(1). Death, by which the whole world is frightened. That death is lighted up by the word of the Guru.

Pause. How should I die now? my heart is comforted by death. Those die, who do not know Ram. (2). Every one says: we must die, we must die. Who dies in tranquillity (of mind), he becomes immortal. (3). Kabir says: joy has sprung up in (my) mind. Doubt is gone, the highest joy remains (with me).

(1). There is not a place anywhere; with whom shall I connect the root? Searching in (my) body I iind no place.

RAG GAURI; THE BHAGAT KABIR, XXII.— XXV. 4G5

The arrows of the worship of Ram are very sharp.

"What do I know, who is beloved by the husband?

(3). Kablr says: on whose forehead the lot (is written):

She obtains at every watch the affection of her husband.

(1). Who has a Lord like Hari, 0 brother! (Him) I go to call emancipated and eternal.

Pause. K'ow I say: 0 Earn, I trust in thee! What have I then to bow down to any one? (2). Hari, on whom the load of the three worlds is, Why slioiild he not cherish (me)? (3). Kablr says: I reflect on him with one mind. What can one do, when (his) mother gives (him) poison?