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1Aasaa:

2They wear loin cloths, three and a half yards long, and triple-wound sacred threads.

3They have rosaries around their necks, and they carry glittering jugs in their hands.

4They are not called Saints of the Lord - they are thugs of Benares. ||1||

5Such 'saints' are not pleasing to me;

6they eat the trees along with the branches. ||1||Pause||

7They wash their pots and pans before putting them on the stove, and they wash the wood before lighting it.

8They dig up the earth and make two fireplaces, but they eat the whole person! ||2||

9Those sinners continually wander in evil deeds, while they call themselves touch-nothing saints.

10They wander around forever and ever in their self-conceit, and all their families are drowned. ||3||

11He is attached to that, to which the Lord has attached him, and he acts accordingly.

12Says Kabeer, one who meets the True Guru, is not reincarnated again. ||4||2||

13Aasaa:

14My Father has comforted me. He has given me a cozy bed, and placed His Ambrosial Nectar in my mouth.

15How could I forget that Father from my mind?

16When I go to the world hereafter, I shall not lose the game. ||1||

17Maya is dead, O mother, and I am very happy.

18I do not wear the patched coat, nor do I feel the chill. ||1||Pause||

19I am a sacrifice to my Father, who gave me life.

20He put an end to my association with the five deadly sins.

21I have conquered those five demons, and trampled them underfoot.

22Remembering the Lord in meditation, my mind and body are drenched with His Love. ||2||

23My Father is the Great Lord of the Universe.

24How shall I go to that Father?

25When I met the True Guru, He showed me the Way.

26The Father of the Universe is pleasing to my mind. ||3||

27I am Your son, and You are my Father.

28We both dwell in the same place.

29Says Kabeer, the Lord's humble servant knows only the One.

30By Guru's Grace, I have come to know everything. ||4||3||

31Aasaa:

32In one pot, they put a boiled chicken, and in the other pot, they put wine.

33The five Yogis of the Tantric ritual sit there, and in their midst sits the noseless one, the shameless queen. ||1||

34The bell of the shameless queen, Maya, rings in both worlds.

35Some rare person of discriminating wisdom has cut off your nose. ||1||Pause||

36Within all dwells the noseless Maya, who kills all, and destroys them.

37She says, ""I am the sister, and the daughter of the sister of everyone; I am the hand-maiden of one who marries me.""||2||

38My Husband is the Great One of discriminating wisdom; He alone is called a Saint.

39He stands by me, and no one else comes near me. ||3||

40I have cut off her nose, and cut off her ears, and cutting her into bits, I have expelled her.

41Says Kabeer, she is the darling of the three worlds, but the enemy of the Saints. ||4||4||

42Aasaa:

43The Yogis, celibates, penitents and Sannyaasees make pilgrimages to all the sacred places.

44The Jains with shaven heads, the silent ones, the beggars with matted hair - in the end, they all shall die. ||1||

45Meditate, therefore, on the Lord.

46What can the Messenger of Death do to one whose tongue loves the Name of the Lord? ||1||Pause||

47Those who know the Shaastras and the Vedas, astrology and the rules of grammar of many languages;