The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 422

(1). How shall a woman become chaste without chastity? ' See and reflect in thy heart, 0 Pandit!

Pause. How shall love increase without affection?

As long as there is enjoyment (of the world), so long there is no love (of God). (2). Who considers in his heart the great merchant (= God) as untrue: She does not meet with the sweetheart (even) in a dream. (3). Who entrusts to him body, heart, property and house: She is a happy married woman, says Kabir.

(1). The whole world is immersed in sensuality.

With (all her) dependents she is drowned (in) sensuality.

Pause. 0 man, why is the boat destroyed and sunk? By being torn away from Hari and united with the woild. (2). Gods and men are burnt, fire seizes them. The water is near, but the cattle do not drink in wading through it. (3). By continually remembering (Hari) water issues. That water is pure, says Kabir.

(1). In which family the son is not reflecting on divine knowledge: Why has not his mother (rather) become a widow?

This luie may also be translated: how shall a woman become a Sati without burning- herself with her hii.sbaiid.'

466 R-^G GAURI; THE BHAGAT KABIR, XXVI.— XXVIII.

Pause. Who does not perform worship to Earn: Why has that sinful man not died when being born? (2). Many abortions have taken place, why is he preserved, Who with stumpy arms lives in the world? ' (3). Kabir says: such as are beautiful and well-formed: They ai-e hump-backed and ugly without the name.

(1). Who take the name of the Lord: For those men I always sacrifice myself.

Pause. He is pure, who sings the excellences of the pure Hari. That man is pleasing to my mind, 0 brother! (2). In whose heart Earn remains brimful: Of their lotus-foot we are the dust. (3). By caste a weaver and patient of mind, Utters Kabir with natural ease the excellences (of Earn).

(1). (My) head is the distillery, my spirit still oozes.

Having collected the sugar-cane,- my body has become the wood.

Who is drinking the juice of Eum and meditating on divine knowledge. (2). When the wife of the distiller naturally comes and joins (them): They become daily intoxicated with joy. (3). (When) the knowing mind is applied (to) the Supreme: Then the Fearless one is obtained, says Kabir.

(1). The nature of the mind penetrates the mind. By subduing the mind what perfection is established?

Pause. Who is that Muni, that subdues his mind? Having subdued his mind, say, whom does he save? (2). Every one says (so) in his mind. (But) without subduing the mind devotion is not made. (3). Kabir says: who knows the secret: He is, like Madbusudhana,^ the god of the three worlds.

' T^= TTi (^gr) stumpy; "q^ ^tT TU. Bahnvrihi, formed wit/i stumpy arms.

' HO ld^> here substantive, sugar-cane, from which spirits are distilled.

^ JT^I'^T^' t''* destroyer of the Daitya Madhii, an epithet of Vishnu (and tlience of Krishna).

KAG GAURI; THE BHAGAT KAIilR. XXIX.-XXXII. 467

(1). The stars, that are seen in the sky, By which painter have they been painted?

Say, 0 Pandit, ■with what is the sky connected?

Who understands it, is a very fortunate, intelligent man.

(2). The sun and the moon they call lights.

In all is spread out the diffusion of Brahm.

In whose heart is Earn (and in whose) mouth (also) there is Earn.

(1). The daughter of the Veda is the Smriti, 0 brother! She has come witb a chain and a rope.

Pause. She has built herself her own city.

By the snare of spiritual blindness the arrow of death is kept ready. (2). Thougb cut off it is not cut off, it does not break (soil, the rope). It becomes a serpent, that devours the world. (3). We see, by whom the whole world is plundered. Kabir says: saying; Ram! I have escaped.