The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 590

The conversations, which are made with devotees, those are a gain.

(233). Kabir (says): whichever men drink Bhang, (eat fish) and (drink) lic[Uors:

(Though they go) to holy watering places, keep fasts and abstinence, they go to hell.

(234). Kabir (says): I put (my) eyes down, having taken my sweetheart into (my) heart.

Every relish I enjoy with my beloved, I show (him) to nobody.

(235). The eight watches, (every) hour (my) soul remains in thy contemplation.

Why should I put down my eyes, all bodies I look upon as the beloved.

(236). Hear, 0 friend! dwells the soul in the beloved or dwells the beloved in the soul?

The soul is the beloved; I do not comprehend, whether in (my) body is the soul or the beloved?

(237). Kabir (says): the Brahman is the Guru of the world, he is not the Guru of the devotees.

Being entangled and toiling in the four Vedas he has died.

(238). Hari is sugar' scattered in sand, it cannot be picked up by the hands.

Kabir says: the Guru taught me a good (word): having become an ant eat it!

(239). Kabir (says): if thou hast a longing for the beloved, cut off thy head and make a ball « of it!

Playing and playing (with it) bring on ecstacy! whatever happens, may it happen!

' ^^^ s.f. (fern, of ^VrSl), a small bag-; Shidhi cfiVf^fft, Mriratbi ^t^35^.

- JTUTlfT adj. dear; Hindi now H^^n (Sausk. iT^^).

^ "ifTJ, bamb, used here as interjection and therefore constructed as feminine. The word is assimilated from 9f^, the full expression being: W^ JTfT^^. Mahadev is the Brahm (or Supreme Being), as mumbled by the votaries of Shiva. Another assiuiilation of?f^ is ■g^J, whicli is also met with in the Granth, and essentially the same as T(T\.

* *nZ?T '"• the twinkling (of the eyes); cf. the Hindi?IZ=fi»n-

' tft3, coarse brown sugar, is in old Hiudui (as still in Panjal)i aud Marathi) feminine, in modern Hindi and Hindustani it is used as masculine.

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(240). Kablr (says): if thou hast a longing after the beloved one, then sport with a ripe one (i.e. the Guru)!

By pressing raw mustard-seed ' neither an oU-cake is made nor oil.

(241). Searching he wanders about like a blind one, and is not knowing the pious.

Ifama (= Namdev) says: ' how shall the Lord be obtained without the devotees?

(242). "Wlio, having given up Hari, that diamond, put their hope on another one:

Those men will go to hell, says truly Eavidas.

(243). Kablr (says): if thou establishest a household, do good, otherwise renounce the world!

(Who) puts an obstacle in the way of a BairagI,' his lucklessness is great.

(1). On which day the young woman ^ is married, (for that) the auspicious days* are written down (before).