Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
While you are alive, let the grabbing, me-first self go quiet. Let it go, and you come alive, and you will not have to be born again and again.
Kabir says: whoever is soaked in the Naam stays lovingly held in the deep stillness of the One.
Let the small, grabbing self grow quiet, so a new kind of life can wake up.
Jeevat marahu marahu fun jeevhu — die while alive, and by that dying, live. This is not about real death at all. It is about the me-first self letting go. Think of a seed. The hard shell has to crack open before the green shoot can come out. The seed is not lost. It becomes a plant.
Punrap janam na ho-ee — then there is no coming round again, no more going in circles.
Kaho kabeer jo naam samaanay — Kabir says, whoever is soaked in the Name sunn rahi-aa liv so-ee — stays lovingly held in the deep stillness at the center of everything. That is a fully awake kind of rest.
What part of you feels most alive when you stop trying so hard to control everything?
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