The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 579

By thee no word is asked, (I am) never applied to (thy) foot."

(66). Kabir (says): at which gate the comers and goers nobod}' stops:

How should that gate, which is such a gate, be given up?

(67). Kabir (says): I had been drowned and was again saved by the dash of an advantageous wave.

When I saw the boat shattered, I descended palpitating.

(68). Kabir (says): devotion is not pleasing to the siuner, the worsliip of Hari is not agreeable (to him).

The fly abandons the sandal-wood, where a stench is, there it goes.

(69). Kabir (says): the physician has died, the sick man has died, the whole world has died.

One, 0 Kabir, has not died, for whom there is no weeper.

(70). By Kabir Ram is not meditated upon, a great evil propensity' has stuck (to him).

The body is a vessel of wood, it does not come up again.

(71). Kabir (says): so it has happened, what is pleasing to the mind, that is done.

What fear is there of dying, when the tree of perfection * is taken in hand?

(72). Kabir (says): for the sake of the juice the sugar-caue is sucked, for the sake of virtue one should die weeping.

(73). Kabir (says): ajar filled with water will to-day or to-morrow burst.

Who do not keep in mind their own Guru, they will iu the half (of life) be robbed and carried off.

(7-1). Kabir is the dog of Ram, Mutia ^ is my name.

On my neck is a rope; where he pulls, thither I go.

(75). Kabir (says): why do the people show a rosary of wood?

In their heart they do not think of Ram, what for is this rosary?

(76). Kabir (says): separation, the snake, dwells in (my) mind, it minds no charm whatever.

He who is separated from Ram, does not live, and if ho lives, he becomes a fool.

' '3^'Rr!•* the Locative of HITTI, a pit of fuel = the funeral pile.

'?5T'S^ 'MrfS; the pronoun " I " is omitted. J^T'S^ is feminine, as the words are put into the mouth of A woman.

' qf^ (= 'QfW)' '■>" <'vil propensity; a vicious habit. ^ See p. 479, note 3.

' iJ^t^T = 'l'f3WT or Jj3T (Tli). released, emancipated.

(77). Kabir (says): the philosopher's stone and sandal-wood have one fragrance. By coming in contact with it (people) have become most excellent, (like) the scentless iron (and) ■wood (is made fragrant by contact with sandal-wood).

(78). Kablr (says): the club of Tama is bad, it cannot be endured.

The holy man alone (= the Guru), who met with me, took me to the hem (of his garment).^

(79). Kabir (says): the physician says: I am excellent, the medicine is in my power.