II.33. ghar ghar dipak barai
LAMPS BURN in every house, O blind one! and you cannot see them.
One day your eyes shall suddenly be opened, and you shall see: and the fetters of death will fall from you.
There is nothing to say or to hear, there is nothing to do: it is he who is living, yet dead, who shall never die again.
Because he lives in solitude, therefore the Yogi says that his home is far away.
Your Lord is near: yet you are climbing the palm-tree to seek Him.
The Brahman priest goes from house to house and initiates people into faith:
Alas! the true fountain of life is beside you, and you have set up a stone to worship.
Kabir says: 1 may never express how sweet my Lord is. Yoga and the telling of beads, virtue and vice-these are naught to Him.'

I. 20. man na rangaye
THE YOGI dyes his garments, instead of dyeing his mind in the colours of love:
He sits within the temple of the Lord, leaving Brahma to worship a stone.
He pierces holes in his ears, he has a great beard and matted locks, he looks like a goat:
He goes forth into the wilderness, killing all his desires, and turns himself into an eunuch:
He shaves his dead and dyes his garments; he reads the Gita an becomes a mighty talker.
Kabir says: 'You are going to the doors of death, bound hand and foot.'

নির্মল প্রত্যুষে আজি যত ছিল পাখি
বনে বনে শাখে শাখে উঠিয়াছে ডাকি।
দোয়েল শ্যামার কণ্ঠে আনন্দ-উচ্ছ্বাস,
গেয়ে গেয়ে পাপিয়ার নাহি মিটে আশ।
করুণ মিনতিস্বরে অশ্রান্ত কোকিল
অন্তরের আবেদনে ভরিছে নিখিল।
কেহ নাচে, কেহ গায়, উড়ে মত্তবৎ,
ফিরিয়া পেয়েছে যেন হারানো জগৎ।
পাখিরা জানে না কেহ আজি বর্ষশেষ,
বকবৃদ্ধ-কাছে নাহি শুনে উপদেশ।
যতদিন এ আকাশে এ জীবন আছে,
বরষের শেষ নাহি তাহাদের কাছে।
মানুষ আনন্দহীন নিশিদিন ধরি
আপনারে ভাগ করে শতখানা করি।