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1The string has become steady, and it does not break; this guitar vibrates with the unstruck melody. ||3||

2Hearing it, the mind is enraptured and becomes perfect; it does not waver, and it is not affected by Maya.

3Says Kabeer, the bairaagee, the renunciate, who has played such a game, is not reincarnated again into the world of form and substance. ||4||2||53||

4Gauree:

5Nine yards, ten yards, and twenty-one yards - weave these into the full piece of cloth;

6take the sixty threads and add nine joints to the seventy-two on the loom. ||1||

7Life weaves itself into its patterns.

8Leaving her home, the soul goes to the world of the weaver. ||1||Pause||

9This cloth cannot be measured in yards or weighed with weights; its food is two and a half measures.

10If it does not obtain food right away, it quarrels with the master of the house. ||2||

11How many days will you sit here, in opposition to your Lord and Master? When will this opportunity come again?

12Leaving his pots and pans, and the bobbins wet with his tears, the weaver soul departs in jealous anger. ||3||

13The wind-pipe is empty now; the thread of the breath does not come out any longer. The thread is tangled; it has run out.

14So renounce the world of form and substance while you remain here, O poor soul; says Kabeer: you must understand this! ||4||3||54||

15Gauree:

16When one light merges into another, what becomes of it then?

17That person, within whose heart the Lord's Name does not well up - may that person burst and die! ||1||

18O my dark and beautiful Lord,

19my mind is attached to You. ||1||Pause||

20Meeting with the Holy, the perfection of the Siddhas is obtained. What good is Yoga or indulgence in pleasures?

21When the two meet together, the business is conducted, and the link with the Lord's Name is established. ||2||

22People believe that this is just a song, but it is a meditation on God.

23It is like the instructions given to the dying man at Benares. ||3||

24Whoever sings or listens to the Lord's Name with conscious awareness

25- says Kabeer, without a doubt, in the end, he obtains the highest status. ||4||1||4||55||

26Gauree:

27Those who try to do things by their own efforts are drowned in the terrifying world-ocean; they cannot cross over.

28Those who practice religious rituals and strict self-discipline - their egotistical pride shall consume their minds. ||1||

29Your Lord and Master has given you the breath of life and food to sustain you; Oh, why have you forgotten Him?

30Human birth is a priceless jewel, which has been squandered in exchange for a worthless shell. ||1||Pause||

31The thirst of desire and the hunger of doubt afflict you; you do not contemplate the Lord in your heart.

32Intoxicated with pride, you cheat yourself; you have not enshrined the Word of the Guru's Shabad within your mind. ||2||

33Those who are deluded by sensual pleasures, who are tempted by sexual delights and enjoy wine are corrupt.

34But those who, through destiny and good karma, join the Society of the Saints, float over the ocean, like iron attached to wood. ||3||

35I have wandered in doubt and confusion, through birth and reincarnation; now, I am so tired. I am suffering in pain and wasting away.

36Says Kabeer, meeting with the Guru, I have obtained supreme joy; my love and devotion have saved me. ||4||1||5||56||

37Gauree:

38Like the straw figure of a female elephant, fashioned to trap the bull elephant, O crazy mind, the Lord of the Universe has staged the drama of this world.

39Attracted by the lure of sexual desire, the elephant is captured, O crazy mind, and now the halter is placed around its neck. ||1||