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GAUREE, KABEER JEE, DU-PADAS: I have not practiced Yoga, or focused my consciousness on meditation. Without renunciation, I cannot escape Maya. ||1|| How have I passed my life? I have not taken the Lord’s Name as my Support. ||1|| Pause|| Says Kabeer, I have searched the skies, and have not seen another, equal to the Lord. ||2||34||

GAUREE, KABEER JEE: That head which was once embellished with the finest turban — upon that head, the crow now cleans his beak. ||1|| What pride should we take in this body and wealth? Why not hold tight to the Lord’s Name instead? ||1|| Pause|| Says Kabeer, listen, O my mind: this may be your fate as well! ||2||35|| THIRTY-FIVE STEPS OF GAUREE GWAARAYREE. ||

RAAG GAUREE GWAARAYREE, ASHTAPADEES OF KABEER JEE: ONE UNIVERSAL CREATOR GOD. BY THE GRACE OF THE TRUE GURU: People beg for pleasure, but pain comes instead. I would rather not beg for that pleasure. ||1|| People are involved in corruption, but still, they hope for pleasure. How will they find their home in the Sovereign Lord King? ||1|| Pause|| Even Shiva and Brahma are afraid of this pleasure, but I have judged that pleasure to be true. ||2|| Even sages like Sanak and Naarad, and the thousand-headed serpent, did not see the mind within the body. ||3|| Anyone can search for this mind, O Siblings of Destiny. When it escapes from the body, where does the mind go? ||4|| By Guru’s Grace, Jai Dayv and Naam Dayv came to know this, through loving devotional worship of the Lord. ||5|| This mind does not come or go. One whose doubt is dispelled, knows the Truth. ||6|| This mind has no form or outline. By God’s Command it was created; understanding God’s Command, it will be absorbed into Him again. ||7|| Does anyone know the secret of this mind? This mind shall merge into the Lord, the Giver of peace and pleasure. ||8|| There is One Soul, and it pervades all bodies. Kabeer dwells upon this Mind. ||9||1||36||

GAUREE GWAARAYREE: Those who are awake to the One Name, day and night — many of them have become Siddhas — perfect spiritual beings — with their consciousness attuned to the Lord. ||1|| Pause|| The seekers, the Siddhas and the silent sages have all lost the game. The One Name is the wish-fulfilling Elysian Tree, which saves them and carries them across. ||1|| Those who are rejuvenated by the Lord, do not belong to any other. Says Kabeer, they realize the Name of the Lord. ||2||37||

GAUREE AND ALSO SORAT’H: O shameless being, don’t you feel ashamed? You have forsaken the Lord — now where will you go? Unto whom will you turn? ||1|| Pause|| One whose Lord and Master is the highest and most exalted — it is not proper for him to go to the house of another. ||1|| That Lord and Master is pervading everywhere. The Lord is always with us; He is never far away. ||2|| Even Maya takes to the Sanctuary of His Lotus Feet. Tell me, what is there which is not in His home? ||3|| Everyone speaks of Him; He is All-powerful. He is His Own Master; He is the Giver. ||4|| Says Kabeer, he alone is perfect in this world, in whose heart there is none other than the Lord. ||5||38|| Whose son is he? Whose father is he? Who dies? Who inflicts pain? ||1|| The Lord is the thug, who has drugged and robbed the whole world. I am separated from the Lord; how can I survive, O my mother? ||1|| Pause|| Whose husband is he? Whose wife is she? Contemplate this reality within your body. ||2|| Says Kabeer, my mind is pleased and satisfied with the thug. The effects of the drug have vanished, since I recognized the thug. ||3||39|| Now, the Lord, my King, has become my help and support. I have cut away birth and death, and attained the supreme status. ||1|| Pause||