The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 564

Kanak (says): by whom the instrument ( = the body) is made, he also must take care of it.

By himself the vessels are formed, he himself also fills them. Into some milk is poured, some are put upon the hearth. Some sleep on a quilt, some stand erect on (it, as servants). Them he adorns, 0 Xanak, on whom he bestows a glance of favour.

He himself creates, he himself destroys, he himself also preserves.

In that (world) he produces the creatures and beholds (them), establishing and disestablishing (them).

To whom shall be said (anything), 0 Xanak! he himself is everything.

By the great one greatness is made, nothing can be said.

That powerful, bountiful creator prepares the daily bread for the creatures.

That work is to be performed, which is put down from the beginning by him.

Xanak (says): without the One there is no other place.

Om! the true name is the creator, the divine male without fear, without enmity, of a timeless

EAGU ASA. THE SPEECH OF THE BHAGATS, OE KABIR, XAIIDEV

(1). Clinging to the foot of the Guru I bow down and ask: why is the soul produced? To what purpose is the world produced and destroyed? let me know this!

0 God, bestow mercy on me, put me into that road, where the bond of fear may break!

Clear away the pain of birth and death, the pleasure of works, (that) the soul may be liberated from regeneration!

(2). The noose (and) bond of the Maya it does not break and in the Vacuum (= Supreme) (my) mind is not hidden.

By (my mind) itself the step of final absorption is not known, iu this wise the entrance' (into a body) does not cease.

(3). He is not produced in any way, what is produced, he knows who is free from existence (and) non-existence.'

When the intelligence (or consciousness) of rising and setting is extinguished in the mind, then it is always naturally absorbed in deep meditation.

(4). As the reflected image will be reunited to the body that casts the reflection, when a water-pot is poured out:

So, (says) Kabir, when the quality of error is broken, is the mind absorbed in the Vacuum.

(1). Who wear Dhotis of three yards and a half and threefold cords;

On whose necks are rosaries and (in whose) hands are white Lotas: Those cheats of Benares are not called the saints of Hari.

They appropriate to themselves fraudulently ' the tree with its boughs. (2). Having scoured the vessels they put them on, having washed the wood they light it. Digging out the earth they make two fireplaces, (but) eat whole men.

(3). Those sinners go about continually in transgressions, (yet) it is said, that their face is not to be touched.

Continually they wander about in egotism and drown their whole family.

(4). To what one is applied, to that he sticks, such works lie does.

Kablr says: with whom the true Guru meets, he is no more regenerated again.

(My) bod is pleasant, nectar is put into my mouth.

How shall I forget that father from (my) mind?

Having gone onwards (to the next world) the play is not lost.