I.57. sadho bhai, jivat hi karo asa
O FRIEND! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live, understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides.
If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death?
It is but an empty dream, that the soul shall have union with Him because it has passed from the body:
If He is found now. He is found then,
If not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death.
If you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.
Bathe in the truth, know the true Guru, have faith in the true Name!
Kabir says: It is the Spirit of the quest which helps; I am the slave of this Spirit of the quest.'

THE SONG THAT I came to sing remains unsung to this day.
I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.
The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart. The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by.
I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house'.
The livelong day has passed in spreading his seat on the floor; but the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house.
I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.

ঝড়ে          যায় উড়ে যায় গো
আমার        মুখের আঁচলখানি।
ঢাকা          থাকে না হায় গো,
তারে         রাখতে নারি টানি।
আমার        রইল না লাজলজ্জা,
আমার        ঘুচল গো সাজসজ্জা
তুমি          দেখলে আমারে
এমন          প্রলয়মাঝে আনি,
আমায়        এমন মরণ হানি।
                হঠাৎ         আকাশ উজলি'
                কারে        খুঁজে কে ওই চলে।
                চমক         লাগায় বিজলি
                আমার       আঁধার ঘরের তলে।
                তবে         নিশীথ-গগন জুড়ে
                আমার       যাক সকলি উড়ে,
                এই           দারুণ কল্লোলে
                বাজুক        আমার প্রাণের বাণী
                কোনো       বাঁধন নাহি মানি।