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1Even then, his hardened mind was not satisfied.

2Says Kabeer, such is my Lord and Master.

3The soul of His humble servant dwells in the fourth state. ||4||1||4||

4Gond:

5It is not human, and it is not a god.

6It is not called celibate, or a worshipper of Shiva.

7It is not a Yogi, and it is not a hermit.

8It is not a mother, or anyone's son. ||1||

9Then what is it, which dwells in this temple of the body?

10No one can find its limits. ||1||Pause||

11It is not a house-holder, and it is not a renouncer of the world.

12It is not a king, and it is not a beggar.

13It has no body, no drop of blood.

14It is not a Brahmin, and it is not a Kh'shaatriya. ||2||

15It is not called a man of austere self-discipline, or a Shaykh.

16It does not live, and it is not seen to die.

17If someone cries over its death,

18that person loses his honor. ||3||

19By Guru's Grace, I have found the Path.

20Birth and death have both been erased.

21Says Kabeer, this is formed of the same essence as the Lord.

22It is like the ink on the paper which cannot be erased. ||4||2||5||

23Gond:

24The threads are broken, and the starch has run out.

25Bare reeds glisten at the front door.

26The poor brushes are scattered in pieces.

27Death has entered this shaven head. ||1||

28This shaven-headed mendicant has wasted all his wealth.

29All this coming and going has irritated him. ||1||Pause||

30He has given up all talk of his weaving equipment.

31His mind is attuned to the Lord's Name.

32His daughters and sons have nothing to eat,

33while the shaven-headed mendicants night and day eat their fill. ||2||

34One or two are in the house, and one or two more are on the way.

35We sleep on the floor, while they sleep in the beds.

36They rub their bare heads, and carry prayer-books in their waist-bands.

37We get dry grains, while they get loaves of bread. ||3||

38He will become one of these shaven-headed mendicants.

39They are the support of the drowning.

40Listen, O blind and unguided Loi:

41Kabeer has taken shelter with these shaven-headed mendicants. ||4||3||6||

42Gond:

43When her husband dies, the woman does not cry.

44Someone else becomes her protector.

45When this protector dies,

46he falls into the world of hell hereafter, for the sexual pleasures he enjoyed in this world. ||1||

47The world loves only the one bride, Maya.

48She is the wife of all beings and creatures. ||1||Pause||

49With her necklace around her neck, this bride looks beautiful.

50She is poison to the Saint, but the world is delighted with her.

51Adorning herself, she sits like a prostitute.

52Cursed by the Saints, she wanders around like a wretch. ||2||

53She runs around, chasing after the Saints.

54She is afraid of being beaten by those blessed with the Guru's Grace.

55She is the body, the breath of life, of the faithless cynics.

56She appears to me like a blood-thirsty witch. ||3||

57I know her secrets well

58in His Mercy, the Divine Guru met me.

59Says Kabeer, now I have thrown her out.

60She clings to the skirt of the world. ||4||4||7||