When You Were Born In This World - Dohas Ii

When you were born in this world Everyone laughed while you cried Conduct NOT yourself in manner such That they laugh when you are gone Kabir's mind got cleansed like the holy Ganges water Now everyone follows, saying Kabir Kabir Guru the washer man, disciple is the cloth The name of God liken to the soap Wash the mind on foundation firm To realize the glow of Truth Alive one sees, alive one knows Thus crave for salvation when full of life Alive you did not cut the noose of binding actions Hoping liberation with death! Inexpressible is the story of Love It cannot be revealed by words Like the dumb eating sweet-meat Only smiles, the sweetness he cannot tell Worry is the bandit that eats into one's heart What the doctor can do, what remedy to impart? Says Kabir Don't be so proud and vain Looking at your high mansion Death makes one lie on bare land And grass will grow thereon Says Kabir Don't be so proud and vain The clutches of Time are dark Who knows where shall it kill Whether at home or abroad Says Kabir By my doing nothing happens What I don't does come to pass If anything happens as if my doing Then truly it is done by someone else Like the pupil in the eyes The Lord resides inside Ignorant do not know this fact They search Him outside First the pangs of separation Next grows the thirst for Love Says Kabir then only hope The union to materialize