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-324You are the True Guru, and I am Your new disciple. Says Kabeer, O Lord, please meet me - this is my very last chance! || 4 || 2 || GAUREE, KABEER JEE: When I realize that there is One, and only One Lord, why then should the people be upset? || 1 || I am dishonored; I have lost my honor. No one should follow in my footsteps. || 1 || Pause || I am bad, and bad in my mind as well. I have no partnership with anyone. || 2 || I have no shame about honor or dishonor. But you shall know, when your own false covering is laid bare. || 3 || Says Kabeer, honor is that which is accepted by the Lord. Give up everything - meditate, vibrate upon the Lord alone. || 4 || 3 || GAUREE, KABEER JEE: If Yoga could be obtained by wandering around naked, then all the deer of the forest would be liberated. || 1 || What does it matter whether someone goes naked, or wears a deer skin, if he does not remember the Lord within his soul? || 1 || Pause || If the spiritual perfection of the Siddhas could be obtained by shaving the head, then why haven't sheep found liberation? || 2 || If someone could save himself by celibacy, O Siblings of Destiny, why then haven't eunuchs obtained the state of supreme dignity? || 3 || Says Kabeer, listen, O men, O Siblings of Destiny: without the Lord's Name, who has ever found salvation? || 4 || 4 || GAUREE, KABEER JEE: Those who take their ritual baths in the evening and the morning are like the frogs in the water. || 1 || When people do not love the Lord's Name, they must all go to the Righteous Judge of Dharma. || 1 || Pause || Those who love their bodies and try different looks, do not feel compassion, even in dreams. || 2 || The wise men call them four-footed creatures; the Holy find peace in this ocean of pain. || 3 || Says Kabeer, why do you perform so many rituals? Renounce everything, and drink in the supreme essence of the Lord. || 4 || 5 || GAUREE, KABEER JEE: What use is chanting, and what use is penance, fasting or devotional worship, to one whose heart is filled with the love of duality? || 1 || O humble people, link your mind to the Lord. Through cleverness, the four-armed Lord is not obtained. || 1 || Pause || Set aside your greed and worldly ways. Set aside sexual desire, anger and egotism. || 2 || Ritual practices bind people in egotism; meeting together, they worship stones. || 3 || Says Kabeer, He is obtained only by devotional worship. Through innocent love, the Lord is met. || 4 || 6 || GAUREE, KABEER JEE: In the dwelling of the womb, there is no ancestry or social status. All have originated from the Seed of God. || 1 || Tell me, O Pandit, O religious scholar: since when have you been a Brahmin? Don't waste your life by continually claiming to be a Brahmin. || 1 || Pause || If you are indeed a Brahmin, born of a Brahmin mother, then why didn't you come by some other way? || 2 || How is it that you are a Brahmin, and I am of a low social status? How is it that I am formed of blood, and you are made of milk? || 3 || Says Kabeer, one who contemplates God, is said to be a Brahmin among us.
