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WITHOUT WITHOUT THE THE MASTER<br />

MASTER<br />

BY BY BY KABIR KABIR<br />

KABIR<br />

A temple roof<br />

Cannot stay up without rafters;<br />

So without Nam<br />

How can one cross the ocean?<br />

Without a vessel<br />

Water cannot be kept;<br />

So without a Saint<br />

Man cannot be saved from doom.<br />

Woe to him<br />

Who thinks not of God,<br />

Whose mind and heart<br />

Remain absorbed in ploughing<br />

The field of the senses.<br />

Without a ploughman<br />

Land cannot be tilled,<br />

Without a thread<br />

Jewels cannot be strung,<br />

Without a knot<br />

The sacred tie cannot be made;<br />

So without a Saint<br />

Man cannot be saved from doom.<br />

A child cannot be born<br />

Without father and mother,<br />

Clothes cannot be washed<br />

Without water,<br />

There can be no horseman<br />

Without a horse;<br />

So without a Master<br />

DROPS DROPS OF OF OF NECT NECTAR NECT NECTAR<br />

AR 298<br />

None can reach the court of the Lord.<br />

Without music<br />

There can be no wedding;<br />

Rejected by her husband,<br />

A bad woman suffers misery;<br />

So man suffers<br />

Without a Saint.<br />

Says Kabir, My friend,<br />

Only one thing attain:<br />

Become a gurumukh<br />

That you not die again.<br />

A.G., Gond, p.8 72<br />

DROPS DROPS OF OF OF NECT NECTAR NECT NECTAR<br />

AR 299

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