When you were born in this world <br />Everyone laughed while you cried <br />Conduct NOT yourself in manner such <br />That they laugh when you are gone <br /> <br />Kabir's mind got cleansed like the holy Ganges water <br />Now everyone follows, saying Kabir Kabir <br /> <br />Guru the washer man, disciple is the cloth <br />The name of God liken to the soap <br />Wash the mind on foundation firm <br />To realize the glow of Truth <br /> <br />Alive one sees, alive one knows <br />Thus crave for salvation when full of life <br />Alive you did not cut the noose of binding actions <br />Hoping liberation with death! <br /> <br />Inexpressible is the story of Love <br />It cannot be revealed by words <br />Like the dumb eating sweet-meat <br />Only smiles, the sweetness he cannot tell <br /> <br />Worry is the bandit that eats into one's heart <br />What the doctor can do, what remedy to impart? <br /> <br />Says Kabir <br />Don't be so proud and vain <br />Looking at your high mansion <br />Death makes one lie on bare land <br />And grass will grow thereon <br /> <br />Says Kabir <br />Don't be so proud and vain <br />The clutches of Time are dark <br />Who knows where shall it kill <br />Whether at home or abroad <br /> <br />Says Kabir <br />By my doing nothing happens <br />What I don't does come to pass <br />If anything happens as if my doing <br />Then truly it is done by someone else <br /> <br />Like the pupil in the eyes <br />The Lord resides inside <br />Ignorant do not know this fact <br />They search Him outside <br /> <br />First the pangs of separation <br />Next grows the thirst for Love <br />Says Kabir then only hope <br />The union to materialize<br /><br />Kabir<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-you-were-born-in-this-world-dohas-ii/
