Kabir suta kya kare baitha rahu aru jaag,
Jis ke sang dehi charo wahi ke sang lag
Kabir delivers a wakeup call, arouse from dreams and rise,
what your body lingers with, is your make up o,wise.
(Kabir, what do you do sleeping, sit up and wake up, with whom you move your body, which becomes your company.)
Kabir demands to know why you are asleep all the time. He chastises one to sit up and stay awake. The physical company of one becomes there mental make up. If one is asleep one is the company of meaningless dreams which lead one nowhere. He asks his followers to wake up from this world of virtual reality into a higher reality that is beyond everyday happenings and do it through meditation and good deeds.
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Tute se phir ye na judhe, judhe to ganth paad jaye.
Responsive chord of love Rahim, do not stretch to snap,
snapped will not fuse again, fused will wear a snag.
(Rahim says, thread of love, and do not break by sudden pull. If broken it won't join again, if joined it will have a knot, a lifelong grouse.)
A relationship of tenderness and affection is like a strong elastic thread that lends itself to stretch without breaking under pressure. Rahim implores that one should not take such tolerance and elasticity for granted. For if stretched too far to its snapping point, it will break. The broken ends retreat away from each other in opposite directions with a great force. Such a broken cord can never be mended. Efforts to rejoin it will always leave a weak string with an obstructing knot. A reestablished relationship of affection will never be as good as the original unbroken was. The pain and mistrust of the broken past will always linger.
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Jaise til mein tail hai, jo chakmak mein aag,
Tera sai tujh mein hain, jaag sake to jaan.
Oil is in ani-seed, fire in a flint stone,
Your lord is inside you, know HIM and awaken.
(Like oil in ani-seed, like fire in flint stone, your Lord is inside you, know him if you can awaken.)
Kabir asserts that our true self is our only and ultimate Lord. Like oil is in a seed but cannot be seen and like fire exists within a flint stone but is not apparent except to a discerning eye, similarly, our true self is within each one of us. It takes a squeezing force to extract oil out of seed. It takes vigorous rubbing to get fire out of a flint stone. Similarly it takes vigorous practice, knowledge and devotion in meditation to find our true self within us. Knowing our true self is like an awakening experience and Kabir challenges us to awaken and find out our true self for our self by our own self.
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