"I am Your son, You are my Father — and we dwell in the same home." Kabir at his most tender.
The Arc
After the fierce satire of the previous shabad, Kabir turns to pure tenderness. The One is a loving Father/parent: He has given me a cozy bed and placed sweetness in my mouth — a child comforted and fed — how could I forget Him? (P0). The Pause bursts with joy and relief: Maya is dead, and I am very happy; I no longer wear the patched coat or feel the chill — the grip of grasping gone, replaced by warmth and enough (P1). He thanks the Father who gave him life and freed him from the five deadly sins, conquered not by willpower but by being drenched in love (P2). He asks the child's honest question — the Father is the Great Lord of the Universe, so how shall I reach Him? — and finds the Guru shows the Way, the infinite Father also dear to the mind (P3). And the radiant close: I am Your son, You are my Father, and we both dwell in the same place — no distance at all; by grace, I have come to know everything that matters (P4).
Key Vocabulary
Cozy bed, sweetness in the mouth (P0) — the One as a parent who comforts, tucks in, and feeds.
Maya is dead, I am happy / no patched coat, no chill (P1) — grasping released; warmth and enough flooding in.
Conquered the five, drenched in love (P2) — the passions overcome by being filled with love, not by force.
"We both dwell in the same place" (P4) — parent and child share one home; no distance between the soul and the One.
Translation Notes
Father imagery.Pitaa (father); rendered as loving father/parent for warmth and inclusivity, keeping the tender child-parent register.
"The five" (P2). The five passions; rendered as "my five worst habits / troublemaker feelings," consistent with the raag.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The child-and-Father intimacy rhymes directly with Ram Das's "I am a child, You are my father" (B00C950) and the errant-child-forgiven (B00C773). "We dwell in the same place" restates the non-dual nearness of the raag (the ghat ghat of B00C931, "God is right here" B00C676) in the warmest possible key. "Maya is dead, I am happy" pairs with Arjan's joy-crowds-out-the-five (B00C955) — the passions leaving not by combat but by the flood of love.
For Raag Aasaa
This is the Bhagat section's gift of pure comfort. To a child it offers the softest possible picture of the divine: not a distant judge but a parent who tucks you in, puts sweetness in your mouth, frees you from your worst habits by loving you, and — the deepest safety of all — lives under the very same roof as you. There was never any distance. You are already home.
"I am Your son, You are my Father — and we dwell in the same home." Kabir at his most tender.
The Arc
After the fierce satire of the previous shabad, Kabir turns to pure tenderness. The One is a loving Father/parent: He has given me a cozy bed and placed sweetness in my mouth — a child comforted and fed — how could I forget Him? (P0). The Pause bursts with joy and relief: Maya is dead, and I am very happy; I no longer wear the patched coat or feel the chill — the grip of grasping gone, replaced by warmth and enough (P1). He thanks the Father who gave him life and freed him from the five deadly sins, conquered not by willpower but by being drenched in love (P2). He asks the child's honest question — the Father is the Great Lord of the Universe, so how shall I reach Him? — and finds the Guru shows the Way, the infinite Father also dear to the mind (P3). And the radiant close: I am Your son, You are my Father, and we both dwell in the same place — no distance at all; by grace, I have come to know everything that matters (P4).
Key Vocabulary
Translation Notes
Themes and Cross-Connections
The child-and-Father intimacy rhymes directly with Ram Das's "I am a child, You are my father" (B00C950) and the errant-child-forgiven (B00C773). "We dwell in the same place" restates the non-dual nearness of the raag (the ghat ghat of B00C931, "God is right here" B00C676) in the warmest possible key. "Maya is dead, I am happy" pairs with Arjan's joy-crowds-out-the-five (B00C955) — the passions leaving not by combat but by the flood of love.
For Raag Aasaa
This is the Bhagat section's gift of pure comfort. To a child it offers the softest possible picture of the divine: not a distant judge but a parent who tucks you in, puts sweetness in your mouth, frees you from your worst habits by loving you, and — the deepest safety of all — lives under the very same roof as you. There was never any distance. You are already home.
Last updated: 2026-07-05