Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Beloved planted this very devotion inside me — it was the One's own doing.
By a love written long before, I met the One, dear friends.
Whoever receives that grace is made whole and complete.
Kabir's Beloved is the one who cherishes the poor and the lowly.
The close gives all the credit to grace. Even Kabir's devotion was planted by the One; the meeting came by poorab likhat, what was "written long before" — read here as grace received, not a debt earned. And the final, tender note: the Beloved is gareeb nivaaj — the cherisher of the poor. The One leans toward the humble and the overlooked.
Why do you think the deepest love so often reaches toward those the world overlooks?
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