The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 418

I am without honour, my honour is lost. May not any one fall into my track! (2). We are tardy, tardy in the mind. We have no partnership nor fellowship with any one. (3). Honour and dishonour, — we do not care for it. Then you will know, when the plaiting' is laid open. (4). Kabir says: the honour (of) Hari - is real. Give up all and adore only Eam!

(I). If by wandering about naked union (^with Hari) bo obtained: Then every deer of the forest will become emancipated.

Pause. What are the naked, what are those with skins,' When they do not know the Supreme? (2). If by shaving the head perfection is obtained: The sheep is emancipated, no one is lost. (3). If by retaining the semen virile one cross, 0 brother! Why should then not the eunuch obtain salvation? (4). Kabir says: hear, 0 man and brother! Without the name of Ram no one has obtained salvation.

(1). Who perform ablution in the evening and at dawn: They become like frogs in the water.

Pause. If there is no love to the name of Earn: They go all to the house of Dharm-Rae. (2). Who are absorbed in many ways in the love of the body: They get no mercy, not even in a dream. (3). The four Vedas and the very clever ones say: (That) the pious obtain happiness in the ocean of the Kali-yug. (4). Kabir says: why is much done? Giving up all (other) juices the great juice should he drunk!

(1). WTiat is muttering, what austerity, what vows and worship (to him), In whose heart there is another love?

Pause. (2). Remove greediness and the way of the world! Remove lust, wrath and egotism!

' VrnTi plaiting = false show or imposition.

' The sense is: what is the difference between them.'

460 RAG GAURI; THE BHAGAT KABIR, VII.— IX.

(3). Those who are practising works are bound by egotism. Falling in with a stone they worship it. (4). Kabir says: by performing devotion he is obtained. By sincere love they are united with King Raghu (= Ram). 0 people, the mind should be applied to the Mfulhava! By cleverness the four-armed (Vishnu) is not obtained.

(1). Whilst dwelling in the womb there is do elan nor caste. From the seed of Brahm the whole creation (is made).

Pause. Say, 0 Pandit, when were the Brahmans made? By saying: (I am) a Brahman, (thy) life (and) religion are lost. (2). If thou art a Brahman born from a Brahman woman: "Why hast thou not come in another way? (3). Whose art thou, 0 Brahman, whose am I, the Sudra? Whose blood am I, whose milk art thou? (4). Kabir says: who reflects on Brahm; He is called a Brahman by me.

(1). In darkness no one will ever sleep in comfort. The king and the poor, both will meet and weep.

Pause. If you will not utter with (your) tongue Earn: In being born and destroyed you will continue weeping. (2). As the shade of a tree is seen (passing away): So life passes; say, whose is (then) the Maya? (3). The soul, that is contained in the creatures,

Does any one know its secret (or has he) any knowledge ' of it when it is dead? (4). The goose is (on) the pond, death (in) the body.= 0 Kabir, drink the elixir of Earn!

(1). Production is of light and light is of production.^ To that adhere crystal,* fruits and pearls.

Pause. What is that house, which is called fearless? When fear goes off, one remains fearless.

' 73 s.f. Intelligence, information (Sindhi cRX; s.f.).

' vf?IT ^3^^. the goose (is on) the pond, i.e. the hair lias become white.

' The sense of the verse: ^fe ^ Wrfj ^nfe sft ^f5 is apparently: everything produced (thHj) owes its origin to the divine light (or vital energy) and vice versa: there would be no light without production, the one is dependent on the other, one cannot be separated from the other.

* The sense of ^nfT is not quite certain; we have translated it by crystal (= 713 or S^)- The whole verse is obscure in its relation to what precedes.

(2). At the bank (of a river) and at a Tirtlia the mind (of him) is not re-assured,

(3). Religious demerit and merit, both are the same.

The philosopher's stone is in thy own house, give (therefore) up other methods!

(4). Kabir says: in the name, which is destitute of the (three) qualities, there is no wrath.

Remain in intimate intercourse with this Lord!

(1). Is the measure of the Yojanas (and their) amount known? In the very heart paradise is contained.

(2). By telling and being told (by others) it (the mind) will not be re-assured.

Then the mind becomes tranquil, when egotism will depart.