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The hail-stone has melted into water, and flowed into the ocean. ||177||

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Kabeer, the body is a pile of dust, collected and packed together.

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It is a show which lasts for only a few days, and then dust returns to dust. ||178||

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Kabeer, bodies are like the rising and setting of the sun and the moon.

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Without meeting the Guru, the Lord of the Universe, they are all reduced to dust again. ||179||

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Where the Fearless Lord is, there is no fear; where there is fear, the Lord is not there.

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Kabeer speaks after careful consideration; hear this, O Saints, in your minds. ||180||

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Kabeer, those who do not know anything, pass their lives in peaceful sleep.

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But I have understood the riddle; I am faced with all sorts of troubles. ||181||

1374 : 381
Kabeer, those who are beaten cry a lot; but the cries of the pain of separation are different.

1374 : 382
Struck by the Mystery of God, Kabeer remains silent. ||182||

1374 : 383
Kabeer, the stroke of a lance is easy to bear; it takes away the breath.

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But one who endures the stroke of the Word of the Shabad is the Guru, and I am his slave. ||183||

1374 : 385
Kabeer: O Mullah, why do you climb to the top of the minaret? The Lord is not hard of hearing.

1374 : 386
Look within your own heart for the One, for whose sake you shout your prayers. ||184||

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Why does the Shaykh bother to go on pilgrimage to Mecca, if he is not content with himself?

1374 : 388
Kabeer, one whose heart is not healthy and whole - how can he attain his Lord? ||185||

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Kabeer, worship the Lord Allah; meditating in remembrance on Him, troubles and pains depart.

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The Lord shall be revealed within your own heart, and the burning fire within shall be extinguished by His Name. ||186||

1374 : 391
Kabeer, to use force is tyranny, even if you call it legal.

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When your account is called for in the Court of the Lord, what will your condition be then? ||187||

1374 : 393
Kabeer, the dinner of beans and rice is excellent, if it is flavored with salt.

1374 : 394
Who would cut his throat, to have meat with his bread? ||188||

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Kabeer, one is known to have been touched by the Guru, only when his emotional attachment and physical illnesses are eradicated.

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He is not burned by pleasure or pain, and so he becomes the Lord Himself. ||189||

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Kabeer, it does make a difference, how you chant the Lord's Name, 'Raam'. This is something to consider.

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Everyone uses the same word for the son of Dasrath and the Wondrous Lord. ||190||

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Kabeer, use the word 'Raam', only to speak of the All-pervading Lord. You must make that distinction.

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One 'Raam' is pervading everywhere, while the other is contained only in himself. ||191||

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Kabeer, those houses in which neither the Holy nor the Lord are served

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- those houses are like cremation grounds; demons dwell within them. ||192||

1374 : 403
Kabeer, I have become mute, insane and deaf.

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I am crippled - the True Guru has pierced me with His Arrow. ||193||

1374 : 405
Kabeer, the True Guru, the Spiritual Warrior, has shot me with His Arrow.

1374 : 406
As soon as it struck me, I fell to the ground, with a hole in my heart. ||194||

1374 : 407
Kabeer, the pure drop of water falls from the sky, onto the dirty ground.

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