Ang-301 — Chapter 24

You are the True Guru, and I am Your new disciple.

Says Kabeer, O Lord, please meet me - this is my very last chance! ||4||2||

Gauree, Kabeer Jee:

When I realize that there is One, and only One Lord,

why then should the people be upset? ||1||

I am dishonored; I have lost my honor.

No one should follow in my footsteps. ||1||Pause||

I am bad, and bad in my mind as well.

I have no partnership with anyone. ||2||

I have no shame about honor or dishonor.

But you shall know, when your own false covering is laid bare. ||3||

Says Kabeer, honor is that which is accepted by the Lord.

Give up everything - meditate, vibrate upon the Lord alone. ||4||3||

Gauree, Kabeer Jee:

If Yoga could be obtained by wandering around naked,

then all the deer of the forest would be liberated. ||1||

What does it matter whether someone goes naked, or wears a deer skin,

if he does not remember the Lord within his soul? ||1||Pause||

If the spiritual perfection of the Siddhas could be obtained by shaving the head,

then why haven't sheep found liberation? ||2||

If someone could save himself by celibacy, O Siblings of Destiny,

why then haven't eunuchs obtained the state of supreme dignity? ||3||

Says Kabeer, listen, O men, O Siblings of Destiny:

without the Lord's Name, who has ever found salvation? ||4||4||

Gauree, Kabeer Jee:

Those who take their ritual baths in the evening and the morning

are like the frogs in the water. ||1||

When people do not love the Lord's Name,

they must all go to the Righteous Judge of Dharma. ||1||Pause||

Those who love their bodies and try different looks,

do not feel compassion, even in dreams. ||2||

The wise men call them four-footed creatures;

the Holy find peace in this ocean of pain. ||3||

Says Kabeer, why do you perform so many rituals?

Renounce everything, and drink in the supreme essence of the Lord. ||4||5||

Gauree, Kabeer Jee:

What use is chanting, and what use is penance, fasting or devotional worship,

to one whose heart is filled with the love of duality? ||1||

O humble people, link your mind to the Lord.

Through cleverness, the four-armed Lord is not obtained. ||Pause||

Set aside your greed and worldly ways.

Set aside sexual desire, anger and egotism. ||2||

Ritual practices bind people in egotism;

meeting together, they worship stones. ||3||

Says Kabeer, He is obtained only by devotional worship.

Through innocent love, the Lord is met. ||4||6||

Gauree, Kabeer Jee:

In the dwelling of the womb, there is no ancestry or social status.

All have originated from the Seed of God. ||1||

Tell me, O Pandit, O religious scholar: since when have you been a Brahmin?

Don't waste your life by continually claiming to be a Brahmin. ||1||Pause||

If you are indeed a Brahmin, born of a Brahmin mother,

then why didn't you come by some other way? ||2||

How is it that you are a Brahmin, and I am of a low social status?

How is it that I am formed of blood, and you are made of milk? ||3||

Says Kabeer, one who contemplates God,

is said to be a Brahmin among us. ||4||7||