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1You are the True Guru, and I am Your new disciple.

2Says Kabeer, O Lord, please meet me - this is my very last chance! ||4||2||

3Gauree, Kabeer Jee:

4When I realize that there is One, and only One Lord,

5why then should the people be upset? ||1||

6I am dishonored; I have lost my honor.

7No one should follow in my footsteps. ||1||Pause||

8I am bad, and bad in my mind as well.

9I have no partnership with anyone. ||2||

10I have no shame about honor or dishonor.

11But you shall know, when your own false covering is laid bare. ||3||

12Says Kabeer, honor is that which is accepted by the Lord.

13Give up everything - meditate, vibrate upon the Lord alone. ||4||3||

14Gauree, Kabeer Jee:

15If Yoga could be obtained by wandering around naked,

16then all the deer of the forest would be liberated. ||1||

17What does it matter whether someone goes naked, or wears a deer skin,

18if he does not remember the Lord within his soul? ||1||Pause||

19If the spiritual perfection of the Siddhas could be obtained by shaving the head,

20then why haven't sheep found liberation? ||2||

21If someone could save himself by celibacy, O Siblings of Destiny,

22why then haven't eunuchs obtained the state of supreme dignity? ||3||

23Says Kabeer, listen, O men, O Siblings of Destiny:

24without the Lord's Name, who has ever found salvation? ||4||4||

25Gauree, Kabeer Jee:

26Those who take their ritual baths in the evening and the morning

27are like the frogs in the water. ||1||

28When people do not love the Lord's Name,

29they must all go to the Righteous Judge of Dharma. ||1||Pause||

30Those who love their bodies and try different looks,

31do not feel compassion, even in dreams. ||2||

32The wise men call them four-footed creatures;

33the Holy find peace in this ocean of pain. ||3||

34Says Kabeer, why do you perform so many rituals?

35Renounce everything, and drink in the supreme essence of the Lord. ||4||5||

36Gauree, Kabeer Jee:

37What use is chanting, and what use is penance, fasting or devotional worship,

38to one whose heart is filled with the love of duality? ||1||

39O humble people, link your mind to the Lord.

40Through cleverness, the four-armed Lord is not obtained. ||Pause||

41Set aside your greed and worldly ways.

42Set aside sexual desire, anger and egotism. ||2||

43Ritual practices bind people in egotism;

44meeting together, they worship stones. ||3||

45Says Kabeer, He is obtained only by devotional worship.

46Through innocent love, the Lord is met. ||4||6||

47Gauree, Kabeer Jee:

48In the dwelling of the womb, there is no ancestry or social status.

49All have originated from the Seed of God. ||1||

50Tell me, O Pandit, O religious scholar: since when have you been a Brahmin?

51Don't waste your life by continually claiming to be a Brahmin. ||1||Pause||

52If you are indeed a Brahmin, born of a Brahmin mother,

53then why didn't you come by some other way? ||2||

54How is it that you are a Brahmin, and I am of a low social status?

55How is it that I am formed of blood, and you are made of milk? ||3||

56Says Kabeer, one who contemplates God,

57is said to be a Brahmin among us. ||4||7||