969

1Cut up desire, sexuality, anger, pride and envy, and let them be the fermenting bark. ||1||

2Is there any Saint, with intuitive peace and poise deep within, unto whom I might offer my meditation and austerities as payment?

3I dedicate my body and mind to whoever gives me even a drop of this wine from such a vat. ||1||Pause||

4I have made the fourteen worlds the furnace, and I have burnt my body with the fire of God.

5My mudra - my hand-gesture, is the pipe; tuning into the celestial sound current within, the Shushmanaa - the central spinal channel, is my cooling pad. ||2||

6Pilgrimages, fasting, vows, purifications, self-discipline, austerities and breath control through the sun and moon channels - all these I pledge.

7My focused consciousness is the cup, and the Ambrosial Nectar is the pure juice. I drink in the supreme, sublime essence of this juice. ||3||

8The pure stream constantly trickles forth, and my mind is intoxicated by this sublime essence.

9Says Kabeer, all other wines are trivial and tasteless; this is the only true, sublime essence. ||4||1||

10Make spiritual wisdom the molasses, meditation the flowers, and the Fear of God the fire enshrined in your mind.

11The Shushmanaa, the central spinal channel, is intuitively balanced, and the drinker drinks in this wine. ||1||

12O hermit Yogi, my mind is intoxicated.

13When that wine rises up, one tastes the sublime essence of this juice, and sees across the three worlds. ||1||Pause||

14Joining the two channels of the breath, I have lit the furnace, and I drink in the supreme, sublime essence.

15I have burnt both sexual desire and anger, and I have been emancipated from the world. ||2||

16The light of spiritual wisdom enlightens me; meeting with the Guru, the True Guru, I have obtained this understanding.

17Slave Kabeer is intoxicated with that wine, which never wears off. ||3||2||

18You are my Sumayr Mountain, O my Lord and Master; I have grasped Your Support.

19You do not shake, and I do not fall. You have preserved my honor. ||1||

20Now and then, here and there, You, only You.

21By Your Grace, I am forever in peace. ||1||Pause||

22Relying upon You, I can live even in the cursed place of Magahar; You have put out the fire of my body.

23First, I obtained the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan in Magahar; then, I came to dwell at Benares. ||2||

24As is Magahar, so is Benares; I see them as one and the same.

25I am poor, but I have obtained this wealth of the Lord; the proud are bursting with pride, and die. ||3||

26One who takes pride in himself is stuck with thorns; no one can pull them out.

27Here, he cries bitterly, and hereafter, he burns in the most hideous hell. ||4||

28What is hell, and what is heaven? The Saints reject them both.

29I have no obligation to either of them, by the Grace of my Guru. ||5||

30Now, I have mounted to the throne of the Lord; I have met the Lord, the Sustainer of the World.

31The Lord and Kabeer have become one. No one can tell them apart. ||6||3||

32I honor and obey the Saints, and punish the wicked; this is my duty as God's police officer.

33Day and night, I wash Your feet, Lord; I wave my hair as the chauree, to brush away the flies. ||1||

34I am a dog at Your Court, Lord.

35I open my snout and bark before it. ||1||Pause||