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Like drops of water in the water of the ocean, and like waves in the stream, I merge in the Lord. Merging my being into the Absolute Being of God, I have become impartial and transparent, like the air. ||1|| Why should I come into the world again? Coming and going is by the Hukam of His Command; realizing His Hukam, I shall merge in Him. ||1|| Pause|| When the body, formed of the five elements, perishes, then any such doubts shall end. Giving up the different schools of philosophy, I look upon all equally; I meditate only on the One Name. ||2|| Whatever I am attached to, to that I am attached; such are the deeds I do. When the Dear Lord grants His Grace, then I am merged in the Word of the Guru’s Shabad. ||3|| Die while yet alive, and by so dying, be alive; thus you shall not be reborn again. Says Kabeer, whoever is absorbed in the Naam remains lovingly absorbed in the Primal, Absolute Lord. ||4||4|| If You keep me far away from You, then tell me, what is liberation? The One has many forms, and is contained within all; how can I be fooled now? ||1|| O Lord, where will You take me, to save me? Tell me where, and what sort of liberation shall You give me? By Your Grace, I have already obtained it. ||1|| Pause|| People talk of salvation and being saved, as long as they do not understand the essence of reality. I have now become pure within my heart, says Kabeer, and my mind is pleased and appeased. ||2||5|| Raawan made castles and fortresses of gold, but he had to abandon them when he left. ||1|| Why do you act only to please your mind? When Death comes and grabs you by the hair, then only the Name of the Lord will save you. ||1|| Pause|| Death, and deathlessness are the creations of our Lord and Master; this show, this expanse, is only an entanglement. Says Kabeer, those who have the sublime essence of the Lord in their hearts — in the end, they are liberated. ||2||6|| The body is a village, and the soul is the owner and farmer; the five farm-hands live there. The eyes, nose, ears, tongue and sensory organs of touch do not obey any order. ||1|| O father, now I shall not live in this village. The accountants summoned Chitar and Gupat, the recording scribes of the conscious and the unconscious, to ask for an account of each and every moment. ||1|| Pause|| When the Righteous Judge of Dharma calls for my account, there shall be a very heavy balance against me. The five farm-hands shall then run away, and the bailiff shall arrest the soul. ||2|| Says Kabeer, listen, O Saints: settle your accounts in this farm. O Lord, please forgive Your slave now, in this life, so that he may not have to return again to this terrifying world-ocean. ||3||7||

RAAG MARU, THE WORD OF KABEER JEE: ONE UNIVERSAL CREATOR GOD. BY THE GRACE OF THE TRUE GURU: No one has seen the Fearless Lord, O renunciate. Without the Fear of God, how can the Fearless Lord be obtained? ||1|| If one sees the Presence of his Husband Lord near at hand, then he feels the Fear of God, O renunciate. If he realizes the Hukam of the Lord’s Command, then he becomes fearless. ||2|| Don’t practice hypocrisy with the Lord, O renunciate! The whole world is filled with hypocrisy. ||3|| Thirst and desire do not just go away, O renunciate. The body is burning in the fire of worldly love and attachment. ||4|| Anxiety is burned, and the body is burned, O renunciate, only if one lets his mind become dead. ||5|| Without the True Guru, there can be no renunciation, even though all the people may wish for it. ||6|| When God grants His Grace, one meets the True Guru, O renunciate, and automatically, intuitively finds that Lord. ||7|| Says Kabeer, I offer this one prayer, O renunciate. Carry me across the terrifying world-ocean. ||8||1||8|| O king, who will come to you? I have seen such love from Bidur, that the poor man is pleasing to me. ||1|| Pause|| Gazing upon your elephants, you have gone astray in doubt; you do not know the Great Lord God. I judge Bidur’s water to be like ambrosial nectar, in comparison with your milk. ||1|| I find his rough vegetables to be like rice pudding; the night of my life passes singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. Kabeer’s Lord and Master is joyous and blissful; He does not care about anyone’s social class. ||2||9||