Your feet have failed, your hands have gone limp, and no words issue forth from your mouth. ||3||

Having grown weary, the five enemies and all the thieves have wandered away according to their own will.

The elephant of the mind has grown weary, and the heart has grown weary as well; through its power, it used to pull the strings. ||4||

He is dead, and the bonds of the ten gates are opened; he has left all his friends and brothers.

Says Kabeer, one who meditates on the Lord, breaks his bonds, even while yet alive. ||5||5||18||

Aasaa, 4 Ik-Tukas:

No one is more powerful than the she-serpent Maya,

who deceived even Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. ||1||

Having bitten and struck them down, she now sits in the immaculate waters.

By Guru's Grace, I have seen her, who has bitten the three worlds. ||1||Pause||

O Siblings of Destiny, why is she called a she-serpent?

One who realizes the True Lord, devours the she-serpent. ||2||

No one else is more frivolous than this she-serpent.

When the she-serpent is overcome, what can the Messengers of the King of Death do? ||3||

Section 08 - Raag Aasaa - Part 135

This she-serpent is created by Him.

What power or weakness does she have by herself? ||4||

If she abides with the mortal, then his soul abides in his body.

By Guru's Grace, Kabeer has easily crossed over. ||5||6||19||

Aasaa:

Why bother to read the Simritees to a dog?

Why bother to sing the Lord's Praises to the faithless cynic? ||1||

Remain absorbed in the Lord's Name, Raam, Raam, Raam.

Do not bother to speak of it to the faithless cynic, even by mistake. ||1||Pause||

Why offer camphor to a crow?

Why give the snake milk to drink? ||2||

Joining the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, discriminating understanding is attained.

That iron which touches the Philosopher's Stone becomes gold. ||3||

The dog, the faithless cynic, does everything as the Lord causes him to do.

He does the deeds pre-ordained from the very beginning. ||4||

If you take Ambrosial Nectar and irrigate the neem tree with it,

still, says Kabeer, its natural qualities are not changed. ||5||7||20||

Aasaa:

A fortress like that of Sri Lanka, with the ocean as a moat around it

- there is no news about that house of Raavan. ||1||

What shall I ask for? Nothing is permanent.

I see with my eyes that the world is passing away. ||1||Pause||

Thousands of sons and thousands of grandsons

- but in that house of Raavan, the lamps and wicks have gone out. ||2||

The moon and the sun cooked his food.

The fire washed his clothes. ||3||

Under Guru's Instructions, one whose mind is filled with the Lord's Name,

becomes permanent, and does not go anywhere. ||4||

Says Kabeer, listen, people: