Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Those whose minds love sorting people into high and low only sing songs of ego.
The unstruck music of the Word, a sound no instrument makes, rings out in the place where the great One lives.
Sorting people into higher and lower is only a song of ego.
abran baran means "no caste and caste." It is the whole idea of ranking people by the family they were born into. People stuck on that ranking, Kabir says, ha-umai gaavan gaavahi geet — they only sing songs of ego.
But where the One lives, another sound plays. It is the anhad sabad, the unstruck music that no instrument makes. Think of a playground where kids pick teams by who is popular. Now picture a game where everyone just plays. The second game is closer to where the One lives. Every soul is equal there.
Have you ever seen someone treated as "less"? What would treating everyone as equal look like?
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