The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 437

On his account much grief affects (them).

When they direct their thoughts on the husband of Lakshml:

Grief is effaced, they obtain all comforts.

(44). Khiikha. How many are gone drooping and wasting away!

(Though) drooping and wasting away, they do not think (of him) tiU now.

If the world now, having known (him), go on to conciliate (him):

It obtains (him) fLrnily, from whom it was separated.

(45). Fifty-two letters are joined together (by me),

Who becomes a Pandit, he remains fearless.

The profession of the Pandit is for the sake of the people.

Who is skilled in divine knowledge, he is reflecting on truth.

Om! by the favour of the true Guru! RAGU GAURI; THE THITIS OF KABIR.

SM: There are fifteen lunar dates and seven week-days. Kabir says: (of him who has) no limit, If the ascetics and perfect devotees obtain the secret: They are themselves the creator, themselves God.

ThiiU. (1). On tJw day of neio moon remove hope (desire)! Remember Ram, the inward governor! Obtain the gate of salvation whilst living! The word of the Fearless one is the very essence of truth.

Pattsc. (Who are) filled with love to the lotus-foot of Govind:

They by the favour of the saints become pure in their mind, they wake day by day in the praise of Hari. (2). On i\\e, first (lunar) day reflect on the beloved! In the body sports the bodiless and boundless one. The pain of death never devours (him), Who is absorbed in the primeval divine male.

(3). Second (lunar) day. Thou knowest, that two are (in) the body. The Maya and Brahm sport with aU. That one neither increases nor decreases. The bodiless and undefiled one is of one and the same state. (4). Third (lunar) day. (Who) grinds and subdues the three (qualities): He obtains the root of joy, the highest place. In the society of the saints confidence springs up. Outside and inside there is always light. (5). Fourth (lunar) day. Seize the fickle mind. Never sit together with lust and wrath! In water and land is he himself. He himself mutters the recitals of his own name. (6). The fifth (lunar) day. The five elements are spread out. Gold and women are the occupation of the world. If one drink with love the nectar-juice: The pain of old age and death will not again befall him.

(7). The sixth (lunar) day. In the six spheres (of the body)' and in the six directions (of the world) (the mind) runs about.

Without intimacy (with the Supreme Spirit) it does not remain steady.

(Who) having eff'aced duality lays hold of patience:

He does not undergo the sharp pain of works.

(8). The seventh (lunar) day. Take (this) word as true!

RAG GAURI; THE THITIS OF KABIE, 9—16. 487

Doubt is dissolved, pain is effaced. In the vacant pond ' thou wilt obtain happiness. (9). The eighth (lunar) day. The body consists of eight substances. - In that ignoble one is the great treasure of the king. Divine knowledge, obtainable from the Guru, shows the secret. The infrangible and indivisible (Supreme) is turned over (= disclosed). (10). The nitith (lunar) day. Subdue the nine gates! Bind down the wandering desire! (If) all greediness and fondness be forgotten: Thou wilt live for ever and eat the fruit of immortality. (11). The tenth (lunas) day. In the ten directions joy springs up. Doubt is dissolved, Goviud is met with. The incomparable substance is consisting of light. It is pure, there is no filth (in it), neither shade nor sunshine. (12). The eleventh (lunar) day. (If one) run in one dii-ection: He does not fall again into the pain of the womb. (His) body becomes cool and pure.

Whom they are showing (as being) far away, him he obtains near (in his heart). (13). The twelfth (lunar) day. Twelve suns rise. Unbeaten sound day and night the musical instriunents. The beloved of the three worlds is seen.

Wonderful! from a created soul he has become the Supreme Soul.^ (14). The thirteenth (lunar) day. Expound the thirteen holy Shastras! Below and above consider (all) as the same! There is neither low nor high, neither honour nor dishonour. In aU things Ram is contained.

(15). The fourteenth (lunar) day. He is in the fourteen worlds. In every hair dwells the enemy of Mura. Keep up meditation on true contentment! The story of the knowledge of Brahm should be told! (16). On the day of full moon the moon is full in the sky. The digit (of the moon) is spread out, (there is) naturally light. In the beginning, end and middle he exists, 0 brother! Kabir sports in the ocean of happiness.

' Wfe ♦IcKeld in tbe vacant pond = the Supreme, «hioh is described by jfe, the vacuum. * Seven substances of the body are usually enumerated.

^ tTlQ (^Y^) as distinguished from flj^, designates the created or rather emanated soni (individual life);?TT©' (= flT^) is on the contrary the universal, supreme soul, the actuating principle iu animated beings.

Pause. Sing continually the excellences of Hari!