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1Raag Gond, The Word Of The Devotees.

2Kabeer Jee, First House:

3One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

4When you meet a Saint, talk to him and listen.

5Meeting with an unsaintly person, just remain silent. ||1||

6O father, if I speak, what words should I utter?

7Speak such words, by which you may remain absorbed in the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

8Speaking with the Saints, one becomes generous.

9To speak with a fool is to babble uselessly. ||2||

10By speaking and only speaking, corruption only increases.

11If I do not speak, what can the poor wretch do? ||3||

12Says Kabeer, the empty pitcher makes noise,

13but that which is full makes no sound. ||4||1||

14Gond:

15When a man dies, he is of no use to anyone.

16But when an animal dies, it is used in ten ways. ||1||

17What do I know, about the state of my karma?

18What do I know, O Baba? ||1||Pause||

19His bones burn, like a bundle of logs;

20his hair burns like a bale of hay. ||2||

21Says Kabeer, the man wakes up,

22only when the Messenger of Death hits him over the head with his club. ||3||2||

23Gond:

24The Celestial Lord is in the Akaashic ethers of the skies, the Celestial Lord is in the nether regions of the underworld; in the four directions, the Celestial Lord is pervading.

25The Supreme Lord God is forever the source of bliss. When the vessel of the body perishes, the Celestial Lord does not perish. ||1||

26I have become sad,

27wondering where the soul comes from, and where it goes. ||1||Pause||

28The body is formed from the union of the five tatvas; but where were the five tatvas created?

29You say that the soul is tied to its karma, but who gave karma to the body? ||2||

30The body is contained in the Lord, and the Lord is contained in the body. He is permeating within all.

31Says Kabeer, I shall not renounce the Lord's Name. I shall accept whatever happens. ||3||3||

32Raag Gond, The Word Of Kabeer Jee, Second House:

33One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

34They tied my arms, bundled me up, and threw me before an elephant.

35The elephant driver struck him on the head, and infuriated him.

36But the elephant ran away, trumpeting,

37"I am a sacrifice to this image of the Lord."||1||

38O my Lord and Master, You are my strength.

39The Qazi shouted at the driver to drive the elephant on. ||1||Pause||

40He yelled out, ""O driver, I shall cut you into pieces.

41Hit him, and drive him on!""

42But the elephant did not move; instead, he began to meditate.

43The Lord God abides within his mind. ||2||

44What sin has this Saint committed,

45that you have made him into a bundle and thrown him before the elephant?

46Lifting up the bundle, the elephant bows down before it.

47The Qazi could not understand it; he was blind. ||3||

48Three times, he tried to do it.