Ang 324

GAUREE, KABEER JEE: O Lord, my thirst for the Water of Your Name will not go away. The fire of my thirst burns even more brightly in that Water. ||1|| Pause|| You are the Ocean of Water, and I am just a fish in that Water. In that Water, I remain; without that Water, I would perish. ||1|| You are the cage, and I am Your parrot. So what can the cat of death do to me? ||2|| You are the tree, and I am the bird. I am so unfortunate — I cannot see the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan! ||3|| 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. ||1|| 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||