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. ||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||

Section 07 - Raag Gauree - Part 175

Gauree, Kabeer Jee:

In the darkness, no one can sleep in peace.

The king and the pauper both weep and cry. ||1||

As long as the tongue does not chant the Lord's Name,

the person continues coming and going in reincarnation, crying out in pain. ||1||Pause||

It is like the shadow of a tree;

when the breath of life passes out of the mortal being, tell me, what becomes of his wealth? ||2||

It is like the music contained in the instrument;

how can anyone know the secret of the dead? ||3||

Like the swan on the lake, death hovers over the body.

Drink in the Lord's sweet elixir, Kabeer. ||4||8||

Gauree, Kabeer Jee:

The creation is born of the Light, and the Light is in the creation.

It bears two fruits: the false glass and the true pearl. ||1||

Where is that home, which is said to be free of fear?

There, fear is dispelled and one lives without fear. ||1||Pause||

On the banks of sacred rivers, the mind is not appeased.

People remain entangled in good and bad deeds. ||2||

Sin and virtue are both the same.

In the home of your own being, is the Philosopher's Stone; renounce your search for any other virtue. ||3||

Kabeer: O worthless mortal, do not lose the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

Keep this mind of yours involved in this involvement. ||4||9||

Gauree, Kabeer Jee: