Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
By that logic there's impurity in your eyes, in your words, in your ears;
impurity when you stand or sit, and even in your kitchen.
There would be no end to it.
Kabir stretches the rule so far that you can see it cannot work.
Nainhu sootak bainhu sootak — impurity in the eyes, impurity in speech. It is in the ears too. Oothat baithat sootak laagai — standing up and sitting down, impurity clings. Sootak parai raso-ee — it even falls on the kitchen.
If impurity clings to seeing, speaking, hearing, moving, and even cooking, there is no escape and no rest. Think of a game with a rule so strict that every single move breaks it. Nobody could ever play.
Kabir gently shows that the whole system falls apart under its own weight. So it cannot be the true measure of a pure heart.
When a rule ends up impossible to keep, is it really the right rule?
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