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1Why are you asleep? Wake up, you ignorant fool!

2You believe that your life in the world is true. ||1||Pause||

3The One who gave you life shall also provide you with nourishment.

4In each and every heart, He runs His shop.

5Meditate and renounce all concepts of "I am" and "Mine."

6Within your heart, contemplate the Naam, the Name of the Lord, sometime. ||2||

7Your life has passed away, but you have not arranged your path.

8Evening has set in, and soon there will be darkness on all sides.

9Says Ravi Daas, O ignorant mad-man,

10don't you realize, that this world is the house of death?! ||3||2||

11Soohee:

12You may have lofty mansions, halls and kitchens.

13But you cannot stay in them, even for an instant, after death. ||1||

14This body is like a house of straw.

15When it is burnt, it mixes with dust. ||1||Pause||

16Even relatives, family and friends begin to say, ""Take his body out, immediately!""||2||

17And the wife of his house, who was so attached to his body and heart,

18runs away, crying out, ""Ghost! Ghost!""||3||

19Says Ravi Daas, the whole world has been plundered,

20but I have escaped, chanting the Name of the One Lord. ||4||3||

21One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

22Raag Soohee, The Word Of Shaykh Fareed Jee:

23Burning and burning, writhing in pain, I wring my hands.

24I have gone insane, seeking my Husband Lord.

25O my Husband Lord, You are angry with me.

26The fault is with me, and not with my Husband Lord. ||1||

27O my Lord and Master, I do not know Your excellence and worth.

28Having wasted my youth, now I come to regret the past. ||1||Pause||

29O black bird, what qualities have made you black?

30"I have been burnt by separation from my Beloved."

31Without her Husband Lord, how can the soul-bride ever find peace?

32When He becomes merciful, then God unites us with Himself. ||2||

33The lonely soul-bride suffers in the pit of the world.

34She has no companions, and no friends.

35In His Mercy, God has united me with the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

36And when I look again, then I find God as my Helper. ||3||

37The path upon which I must walk is very depressing.

38It is sharper than a two-edged sword, and very narrow.

39That is where my path lies.

40O Shaykh Fareed, think of that path early on. ||4||1||

41Soohee, Lalit:

42You were not able to make yourself a raft when you should have.

43When the ocean is churning and over-flowing, then it is very difficult to cross over it. ||1||

44Do not touch the safflower with your hands; its color will fade away, my dear. ||1||Pause||

45First, the bride herself is weak, and then, her Husband Lord's Order is hard to bear.

46Milk does not return to the breast; it will not be collected again. ||2||

47Says Fareed, O my companions, when our Husband Lord calls,

48the soul-swan departs, sad at heart, and this body returns to dust. ||3||2||