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1Why do you walk in that crooked, zig-zag way?

2You are nothing more than a bundle of bones, wrapped in skin, filled with manure; you give off such a rotten smell! ||1||Pause||

3You do not meditate on the Lord. What doubts have confused and deluded you? Death is not far away from you!

4Making all sorts of efforts, you manage to preserve this body, but it shall only survive until its time is up. ||2||

5By one's own efforts, nothing is done. What can the mere mortal accomplish?

6When it pleases the Lord, the mortal meets the True Guru, and chants the Name of the One Lord. ||3||

7You live in a house of sand, but you still puff up your body - you ignorant fool!

8Says Kabeer, those who do not remember the Lord may be very clever, but they still drown. ||4||4||

9Your turban is crooked, and you walk crooked; and now you have started chewing betel leaves.

10You have no use at all for loving devotional worship; you say you have business in court. ||1||

11In your egotistical pride, you have forgotten the Lord.

12Gazing upon your gold, and your very beautiful wife, you believe that they are permanent. ||1||Pause||

13You are engrossed in greed, falsehood, corruption and great arrogance. Your life is passing away.

14Says Kabeer, at the very last moment, death will come and seize you, you fool! ||2||5||

15The mortal beats the drum for a few days, and then he must depart.

16With so much wealth and cash and buried treasure, still, he cannot take anything with him. ||1||Pause||

17Sitting on the threshhold, his wife weeps and wails; his mother accompanies him to the outer gate.

18All the people and relatives together go to the crematorium, but the swan-soul must go home all alone. ||1||

19Those children, that wealth, that city and town - he shall not come to see them again.

20Says Kabeer, why do you not meditate on the Lord? Your life is uselessly slipping away! ||2||6||

21Raag Kaydaaraa, The Word Of Ravi Daas Jee:

22One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

23One who performs the six religious rituals and comes from a good family, but who does not have devotion to the Lord in his heart,

24one who does not appreciate talk of the Lord's Lotus Feet, is just like an outcaste, a pariah. ||1||

25Be conscious, be conscious, be conscious, O my unconscious mind.

26Why do you not look at Baalmeek?

27From such a low social status, what a high status he obtained! Devotional worship to the Lord is sublime! ||1||Pause||

28The killer of dogs, the lowest of all, was lovingly embraced by Krishna.

29See how the poor people praise him! His praise extends throughout the three worlds. ||2||

30Ajaamal, Pingulaa, Lodhia and the elephant went to the Lord.

31Even such evil-minded beings were emancipated. Why should you not also be saved, O Ravi Daas? ||3||1||