The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 427

(1). The Jog! says: the JGg is good and sweet, there is nothing else, 0 brother!

Tlie plundered and shorn ones ( = Jainas) and the Ek-sabdis ' say: we have obtained perfection.

Fause. Without Hari they are led astray by error and are blind. To whom I go to get rid of my own self, they are bound by many nooses. (2). Erom whom things have sprung, in that very one they are absorbed: this rule is forgotten at

The Pandits, virtuous, heroes and bountiful ones say: we are great.

(3). Whom he informs, he comprehends, without comprehending how should one^ remain steady?

If one meet with the true Guru, darkness ceases, in this wise the ruby is obtained.

(4). Give up aU changes to the left and right! by making firm the foot of Hari (in oneself) one

Kabir says: (if) a dumb person eats molasses, what can he say (about it) when being asked.•'

Urn! by the favour of the true Guru! I. LII. (1) Where something was, there is nothing, the five elements are not there. (If) the right and left and the middle channel (of the vital breath) be stopped, where will the vices go?

Fduse. The thread is broken, the sky (= the soul) has passed away, where is thy speaking (soul) absorbed? This doubt seizes me daily and no one clears it up for me. (2). Whose body the universe is, he is not in it, the creator is not in it.

' =2? 1TTi;f^, an order of mendicants, who only vociferate: nm^; they are also called Gosavis. = Or supply from the foUowh.g li.ie " darkness " as subject, and translate ^^ by: how should it be stopped?

RAG GAURI; THE BHAGAT KABIR, LIII. LIV. 475

Who is putting (the things) together, he is always aloof (from them), in what can he be said (to be contained)?

(3). Being joined together it is joined, it does not break though being broken off, till it becomes annihilated (by the Supreme).

TVhat for a master, what for a servant? who goes (to the house) of any one?

(4). Kabir says: where he (=IIari) dwells, there devout meditation is made day and night.

His secret that very man knows, he then is always imperishable.

(1). The Veda and the Smriti are the two earrings, true knowledge the patched quilt outside. Dwelling in an empty cave is (my) sitting free from any design, (this is my) religion.

Pause. 0 my king, I am a BairagT and Jogl.

"When dying, I am not grieved nor am I separated (from thee).

(2). In the world and universe is (my) little horn, my bag is the whole world, (that is) living on ashes. Clapping of hands is made, which is returned every minute,' if it ceases, it is spread (further). (3). The mind and breath are made the drinking-gourd, the fiddle is constantly prepared. The string has become firm, it does not break, unbeaten the fiddle sounds.

(4). Hearing (its sound) (my) mind has become delighted, it is absorbed in the omnipresent one, it does not (any more) vacillate.

Kabir says: that one is not subject again to birth, the BaiiagI having played (his part), is gone (for ever).

(1). Nine yards, ten yards, twenty-one yards one body is stretched out. Seven threads, nine sections, seventy-two woofs are moreover added (to it).^

(The woman) goes to get it (= the semen) woven (in) a month. When the house ' is given up, the weaver goes.

(2). It is not measured by yards, it is not weighed by weight, the baking means is two Seers and a half.^ If it (=the foetus) does not get the baking means quickly, it quarrels and laments in the house (= the womb).

(3). The sitting of the days,' the opposition of the husband, how has this time come? The platters are left,* the body gets wet, the weaver goes in disgust.

' f^VWi the space of three palas, one pala being the sixtieth part of a VL)"^, or twenty-four minutes.

" These lines are extremely difficult, and I could get no explanation whatever from the Sikh Grantiils. I have translated therefore according to conjecture. \r3T is here apparently = hody, which ineaning it has already in Sanskrit. It is uncertain, what measure is here understood by SItT. as the relative size of the human body is apparently hinted at. lu the second line the seven threads seem to imply the seven chief arteries, the nine sections (Vf^) the different divisions of the body, the seventy-two woofs the seventy-two small veins of the body, (according to Hindu anatomy).

^ llfg signifies here: wife. The act of conception seems to be hinted at.