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324 You 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. ॥4॥7॥