Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
This living cloth cannot be measured in yards or weighed on any scale — it is worth more than counting.
And like anything alive and growing, it needs its daily nourishment; when it is hungry, it lets you know.
Kabir keeps the loom metaphor playful and earthy: the "cloth" of a life cannot be measured or weighed — it is beyond price. And, like a living thing, it needs feeding (paachan sayr adhaaee) and "quarrels" for its food when hungry — a homely, humorous nod to the body's daily needs. The wonder here is that something so ordinary (a woven body, needing meals) carries something beyond all measure.
Isn't it wonderful that something as ordinary as you needs meals, and yet is beyond all price?
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