Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
If You set me free only after I am dead, no one will know that I am free.
These pandits, these scholars, call me low-born. When they say that, they shame Your honor too.
Your dignity matters now, in this life, and whoever looks down on you slights the One you belong to.
Mooay hooay ja-o mukat dayhugay: if You free me only after I am dead, who will know? Namdev wants belonging now, while he lives. Then tayree paij, Your honor: he belongs to the One, so when the pandits, the religious scholars, call him low-born, they slight the One too. The devotee's dignity and the One's honor are bound together.
Why might how we treat the person others rank "lowest" say something about what we believe?
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