I CAME NEAREST to you, though I did not know it,-when I came to hurt you.
I owned you at last as my master when I fought against you to be defeated.
I merely made my debt to you burdensome when I robbed you in secret.
I struggled in my pride against your current only to feel all your force in my breast.
Rebelliously I put out the light in my house and your sky surprised me with its stars.

III. 96. jiv mahal men Siv pahunwa
SERVE YOUR God, who has come into this temple of life!
Do not act the part of a madman, for the night is thickening fast.
He has awaited me for countless ages, for love of me He has lost His heart:
Yet I did not know the bliss that was so near to me, for my love was not yet awake.
But now, my Lover has made known to me the meaning of the note that struck my ear:
Now, my good fortune is come.
Kabir says: 'Behold! how great is my good fortune! I have received the unending caress of my beloved!'

রূপে ও অরূপে গাঁথা
        এ ভুবনখানি--
ভাব তারে সুর দেয়,
        সত্য দেয় বাণী।
এসো মাঝখানে তার,
আনো ধ্যান আপনার
ছবিতে গানেতে যেথা
        নিত্য কানাকানি।