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Raag Gauree: Chaytee
Raag Gauree Chaytee:
Behold, O Siblings of Destiny, the storm of spiritual wisdom has come.
It has totally blown away the thatched huts of doubt, and torn apart the bonds of Maya. ||1||Pause||
The two pillars of double-mindedness have fallen, and the beams of emotional attachment have come crashing down.
The thatched roof of greed has caved in, and the pitcher of evil-mindedness has been broken. ||1||
Section 07 - Raag Gauree - Part 182 Your servant is drenched with the rain that has fallen in this storm.
Says Kabeer, my mind became enlightened, when I saw the sun rise. ||2||43||
Gauree Chaytee:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
They do not listen to the Lord’s Praises, and they do not sing the Lord’s Glories, but they try to bring down the sky with their talk. ||1||
What can anyone say to such people?
You should always be careful around those whom God has excluded from His devotional worship. ||1||Pause||
They do not offer even a handful of water, while they slander the one who brought forth the Ganges. ||2||
Sitting down or standing up, their ways are crooked and evil.
They ruin themselves, and then they ruin others. ||3||
They know nothing except evil talk.
They would not even obey Brahma’s orders. ||4||
They themselves are lost, and they mislead others as well.
They set their own temple on fire, and then they fall asleep within it. ||5||
They laugh at others, while they themselves are one-eyed.
Seeing them, Kabeer is embarrassed. ||6||1||44||
Raag Gauree Bairaagan, Kabeer Jee:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
He does not honor his ancestors while they are alive, but he holds feasts in their honor after they have died.
Tell me, how can his poor ancestors receive what the crows and the dogs have eaten up? ||1||
If only someone would tell me what real happiness is!
Speaking of happiness and joy, the world is perishing. How can happiness be found? ||1||Pause||
Making gods and goddesses out of clay, people sacrifice living beings to them.
Such are your dead ancestors, who cannot ask for what they want. ||2||
You murder living beings and worship lifeless things; at your very last moment, you shall suffer in terrible pain.
You do not know the value of the Lord’s Name; you shall drown in the terrifying world-ocean. ||3||
You worship gods and goddesses, but you do not know the Supreme Lord God.
Says Kabeer, you have not remembered the Lord who has no ancestors; you are clinging to your corrupt ways. ||4||1||45||
Gauree:
One who remains dead while yet alive, will live even after death; thus he merges into the Primal Void of the Absolute Lord.
Remaining pure in the midst of impurity, he will never again fall into the terrifying world-ocean. ||1||
O my Lord, this is the milk to be churned.
Through the Guru’s Teachings, hold your mind steady and stable, and in this way, drink in the Ambrosial Nectar. ||1||Pause||
The Guru’s arrow has pierced the hard core of this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, and the state of enlightenment has dawned.
In the darkness of Maya, I mistook the rope for the snake, but that is over, and now I dwell in the eternal home of the Lord. ||2||
Maya has drawn her bow without an arrow, and has pierced this world, O Siblings of Destiny.
Section 07 - Raag Gauree - Part 183 The drowning person is blown around in the ten directions by the wind, but I hold tight to the string of the Lord’s Love. ||3||
The disturbed mind has been absorbed in the Lord; duality and evil-mindedness have run away.
Says Kabeer, I have seen the One Lord, the Fearless One; I am attuned to the Name of the Lord. ||4||2||46||
Gauree Bairaagan, Ti-Padas:
I turned my breath inwards, and pierced through the six chakras of the body, and my awareness was centered on the Primal Void of the Absolute Lord.
Search for the One who does not come or go, who does not die and is not born, O renunciate. ||1||
My mind has turned away from the world, and is absorbed in the Mind of God.
By Guru’s Grace, my understanding has been changed; otherwise, I was totally ignorant. ||1||Pause||
That which was near has become distant, and again, that which was distant is near, for those who realize the Lord as He is.
It is like the sugar water made from the candy; only one who drinks it knows its taste. ||2||
Unto whom should I speak Your speech, O Lord; it is beyond the three qualities. Is there anyone with such discerning wisdom?
Says Kabeer, as is the fuse which you apply, so is the flash you will see. ||3||3||47||
Gauree:
There is no rainy season, ocean, sunshine or shade, no creation or destruction there.
No life or death, no pain or pleasure is felt there. There is only the Primal Trance of Samaadhi, and no duality. ||1||
The description of the state of intuitive poise is indescribable and sublime.
It is not measured, and it is not exhausted. It is neither light nor heavy. ||1||Pause||
Neither lower nor upper worlds are there; neither day nor night are there.
There is no water, wind or fire; there, the True Guru is contained. ||2||
The Inaccessible and Unfathomable Lord dwells there within Himself; by Guru’s Grace, He is found.
Says Kabeer, I am a sacrifice to my Guru; I remain in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||3||4||48||
Gauree:
With both sin and virtue, the ox of the body is purchased; the air of the breath is the capital which has appeared.
The bag on its back is filled with desire; this is how we purchase the herd. ||1||
My Lord is such a wealthy merchant!
He has made the whole world his peddler. ||1||Pause||
Sexual desire and anger are the tax-collectors, and the waves of the mind are the highway robbers.
The five elements join together and divide up their loot. This is how our herd is disposed of! ||2||
Says Kabeer, listen, O Saints: This is the state of affairs now!
Going uphill, the ox has grown weary; throwing off his load, he continues on his journey. ||3||5||49||