The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 584

(If) a black vessel be touched, some staia is received.

(132). Kabir (says): Earn has not been thought of and old age has (now) arrived.

It clings to the gate of the mansion, what can be taken out (of it)?

(133). Kabir (says): that action has taken place, which was done by the creator.

Without him there is no second, he alone is the creator.

(134). Kabir (says): fruits have set on, the mangoes have begun to bear fruit and to ripen.

They reach their owner, when putridity ' does not eat their inside.

(135). Kabir (says): having bought an idol he worships it, in the obstinacy of his mind he goes to a Tirtha.

By emulation and imitation (of others) * he is led astray and plunged into error.

(136). Kabir (says): a stone is made the Lord, the whole world worships it.

Who remains in reliance on this, is drowned in the black stream.

(137). Kabir (says): the threshokP is of paper, works of ink" the door.

By a stone' the earth is drowned, by the Pandit the road is torn up.

(138). Kabir (says): what (thou art) doing to-morrow, do now, what (thou art) doing now, (do) at once! "

Afterwards nothing will be done, when death comes on (thy) head.

(139). Kabir (says): I saw one such being like washed gumlac.

It appears clever and endowed with many qualities, (but) is without understanding (and) impure.

' y^lfS^i '"• ocean, from the Sansk. <,(j| [WK' jewel-mine, J^ being assimilated to 1^, which becomes again 'X'\, and 'JIT^T *^" ^T^ ''^ elision of ^ and change of a to i.

" ir3J Q^(J<M> to be given to sleep (frequentative).

' 5T^, a disease, which befalls mangoes, putridity.

^ %trr%tft •'•/• emnlation (literally: looking at each other mutually); T^JT MdcM > to imitate (XjfH part. p. conj.).

'"' The meaning of Gy Jt 's ""t q"'te sure; the Sikh Granthis explain it by " liouse," which is apparently only a gness. In Hindi the word is no more in use, but in Marathi we have still '^^'^T> the lower cross- piece of a door-frame; G y dT would he the feminine of this.

' "L) IvJ A> a stone, liere apparently in the sense of an idol.

(140). Kabir (says): Tama does not fetter my intelligence by that death.'

By whom this Yama is created, that preserver is muttered (by me).

(141). Kabir has become musk, the black bees have all become (his) servants.

As the devotion of Kabir is, so is (his) dwelling in Earn.

(142). Kabir (says): he has closely fallen on the neck of (his) family, Eam has passed (out of his mind).

(The messengers) of Dharm-rai have fallen in, there is inside (the house) a clamour.

(143). Kabir (says): a pig is better than a Sfikat, it keeps the village clean.