The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 572

(4). Kablr says: the wife is then winning (the game),

When singing the excellences of Hari she passes her lifetime.

(1). Eetter is a saw (put on my neck), than that thou turn away (from me). Cling to my neck, hear my entreat}"!

Pause. I am a sacrifice (to thee), turn thy face (to me), 0 beloved! Why dost thou turn away from me, (why) dost thou beat me? (2). When thou splittest (my) body (in two), I do not move back my limbs. Though my body fall (to the ground), I do not break my love. (3). Between me and thee there is no other. Thou art (my) dear husband, I am (thy) wife. (4). Kabir says: hear, 0 Lol! ' Now no confidence is put in thoe.

Pause. By no one is the secret of the weaver known. The whole world is stretched out (by him) as a warp. (1 ). When thou hearest the Veda and the Pariujas: Then (by me) a warp of such extent is spread out. (2). Of earth and heaven (my) workshop' is made. Sun and moon, both I make go with (me).

(3). Joining the feet one roll was made, then (my) mind was pleased by the strings. The weaver knows his own house, Eam is known (as being) in his very heart. (4). Kabir says: the workshop is broken up, (When) the threads are joined with the threads on the border.

(1). Within his heart is filthiness, though he bathe at a Tirtha; he will not go to paradise. By the belief of the people nothing is eifected,' Eam is not ignorant.

Pause. Adore Ram, the One God! The service of the Guru is true bathing.

(2). If by immersion in the water salvation be obtained, (know), the frogs bathe continually. As the frogs, so are those men; again and again they fall into the womb.

' (0)yX is said to have been tlic name of Kabir's wife.

^ The sense is: the opuiion or belief of the people, that they "ill go to paradise, avails nothing.

(3). If the hard-hearted one die at Benares, he is not saved (from) hell.

If the saint of Hari die at Haramba, he saves his -whole relationship.

(4). (Where there) is no day and night, no Veda and Shustra, there dwells the Formless one.

Kablr says: meditate on that divine male, 0 foolish world!

Om! By the favour of the true Guru! I. (1). The One is diffused in the many (and) all-filling, wherever I see, there is he. By the beautiful mirage of the Maya (the world) is deluded, some rare one compreheuds (the truth).

Pause. All is G5vind, all is Govind, without Govind there is no other.

As in one string there are seven thousand beads, (so) is that Lord lengthwise and crosswise. (2). A wave of water, froth and bubble do not become separate from the water. This world is the sport of the Supreme Brahm, playing about he does not become another. (3). False is error and a dream is desire, the true object is known (from the Guru). The desire for good works is taught by the Guru, in being awake the mind is reconciled. (4). Namdev says: look at the arrangement of Hari and reflect iu thy heart! In everybody and contiguous to all is only that One Murari.

(1). A jar is taken and filled with water, (that) I may bathe the Lord.

Forty-two Lakhs of living beings are produced in the water, to Bithal,' 0 brother,- what shall I do?

Pause. Wherever I go, there Bithal is, 0 brother! He is very joyful and always playful.

(2). Flowers are brought, a garland is made up, I perform worship to the Lord. First the scent is taken away by the black bees, what shall I. do to Bithal, 0 brother? (3). Milk is brought and Khir^ cooked, (that) I may make an offering of eatables to the Lord. First the milk is deiiled by the calf, what shall I do to Bithal, 0 brother? (4). Here is Bithal, there is Bithal, without Bithal the world is not. In every place, says Nama, in all thou art fully contained.

(1). My mind is a yard, my tongue a pair of scissors. Measuring and measuring I cut off the noose of Yama.

Pause. What shall I do with (my) caste, what shall I do with my brotherhood? Day and night I mutter the name of Ram. (2). With dye-stuff I colour, a seam I sew. Without the name of Ram I do not live twenty-four minutes.

' ■^I'H?? = 'f%^'5f, Vishnu, apparently a Prakrit dimin.of the p. part. f%'S: he who is contained (in al]), see my Sindlii Gram. Introd. p. xlii.

' 3WI' = sJiylWl, an old form of the diminutive (J? = "3), from 3TS^> brother. ^ y^t^t rice boiled in milk.

(3). I perform -n-orship, I siBg the excellences (of Hari). Througli the eight watches I meditate on my Lord. (4). The needle is of gold, of silver the thread. The mind of Nama is applied to Hari.

(1). The snake drops its skin, (but) does not give up (its) poison, As the heron makes meditation in the water.'

Pause. What for is meditation made and recitation (of the name). When one's mind is not pure?

(2). (Like) a lion,- who knows man to be (his) food: So the cheat expounds God. (3). 0 Lord of Kama,^ give up the contention! Drink the elixir of Earn, 0 deceitful one!