Ang-301 — Chapter 37
By Your Power, You have set this false contrivance in motion. ||2||
Some collect hundreds of thousands of dollars,
but in the end, the pitcher of the body bursts. ||3||
Says Kabeer, that single foundation which you have laid
will be destroyed in an instant - you are so egotistical. ||4||1||9||60||
Gauree:
Just as Dhroo and Prahlaad meditated on the Lord,
So should you meditate on the Lord, O my soul. ||1||
O Lord, Merciful to the meek, I have placed my faith in You;
along with all my family, I have come aboard Your boat. ||1||Pause||
When it is pleasing to Him, then He inspires us to obey the Hukam of His Command.
He causes this boat to cross over. ||2||
By Guru's Grace, such understanding is infused into me;
my comings and goings in reincarnation have ended. ||3||
Says Kabeer, meditate, vibrate upon the Lord, the Sustainer of the earth.
In this world, in the world beyond and everywhere, He alone is the Giver. ||4||2||10||61||
Gauree 9:
He leaves the womb, and comes into the world;
as soon as the air touches him, he forgets his Lord and Master. ||1||
O my soul, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||1||Pause||
You were upside-down, living in the womb; you generated the intense meditative heat of 'tapas'.
Then, you escaped the fire of the belly. ||2||
After wandering through 8.4 million incarnations, you came.
If you stumble and fall now, you shall find no home or place of rest. ||3||
Says Kabeer, meditate, vibrate upon the Lord, the Sustainer of the earth.
He is not seen to be coming or going; He is the Knower of all. ||4||1||11||62||
Gauree Poorbee:
Don't wish for a home in heaven, and don't be afraid to live in hell.
Whatever will be will be, so don't get your hopes up in your mind. ||1||
Sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord,
from whom the most excellent treasure is obtained. ||1||Pause||
What good is chanting, penance or self-mortification? What good is fasting or cleansing baths,
unless you know the way to worship the Lord God with loving devotion? ||2||
Don't feel so delighted at the sight of wealth, and don't weep at the sight of suffering and adversity.
As is wealth, so is adversity; whatever the Lord proposes, comes to pass. ||3||
Says Kabeer, now I know that the Lord dwells within the hearts of His Saints;
that servant performs the best service, whose heart is filled with the Lord. ||4||1||12||63||
Gauree:
O my mind, even if you carry someone's burden, they don't belong to you.
This world is like the perch of the bird on the tree. ||1||
I drink in the sublime essence of the Lord.
With the taste of this essence, I have forgotten all other tastes. ||1||Pause||
Why should we weep at the death of others, when we ourselves are not permanent?
Whoever is born shall pass away; why should we cry out in grief? ||2||
We are re-absorbed into the One from whom we came; drink in the Lord's essence, and remain attached to Him.
Says Kabeer, my consciousness is filled with thoughts of remembrance of the Lord; I have become detached from the world. ||3||2||13||64||
Raag Gauree:
The bride gazes at the path, and sighs with tearful eyes.
✦ Connected Across Traditions
Impermanence & Letting Go
Dhammapada 20:277
“All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
Tao Te Ching 76
“A man is born gentle and weak. At his death he is hard and stiff. The soft and yielding is the disciple of life.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”
Bhagavad Gita 2:22
“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”
The Path to Wisdom
Proverbs 4:7
“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.”
Dhammapada 20:282
“Wisdom springs from meditation; without meditation wisdom wanes.”
Analects 2:11
“If you study the past and use it to understand the present, you are worthy of being a teacher.”
Tao Te Ching 33
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
Humility & Surrender
Bhagavad Gita 18:66
“Abandon all varieties of dharma and simply surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions; do not fear.”
Matthew 5:5
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
Tao Te Ching 22
“If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.”
Quran 2:45
“Seek help through patience and prayer. It is indeed exacting, but not for those who are humble.”
Good vs Evil / Light vs Darkness
Yasna 30:3
“Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action.”
John 1:5
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
Dhammapada 1:1-2
“Mind is the forerunner of all actions. If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow.”
Genesis 1:3
“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”