Why puff up over the little you happen to be holding? Nothing came in with you, and nothing goes out.
The Arc
Kabir opens the Bhagat section of Saarang with a gentle challenge to pride (rahau), then widens it: worldly power lasts only a season, like green leaves; no wealth comes or goes with us; even emperors greater than Raawan vanished in a breath. The steady ones are those rooted in the Name, and in the end not even our dearest travel the final road with us, so keep the One close now.
Key Vocabulary
Garab — pride, the puffing-up over small holdings. Har paat — green leaves, alive but only for a season. Raawan — a legendary emperor of immense might in the old stories. Thir — steady, unshaken. Satsang — the company of those who love the One. Ba-uray — rendered as a warm self-nudge, not an insult. Janam akaarath — a caring warning against letting a life drift by unused.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Impermanence of wealth and power; worth apart from possessions; the steadiness of the Name; belonging over having. The turn from clutching to trust rhymes with the whole raag, and the naming of family who cannot follow anticipates Kabir own closing shabad of the block (B00C2734).
For Raag Saarang
Saarang is the raag of longing; Kabir points that longing away from things that fade and toward the One that holds.
Translation Notes
Attribution is clear from the section header raag saarang banee bhagtaan kee / kabeer jee, so this is Bhagat Kabir; the rahau sits in P0, folded into the opening (||1|| rahau). Wellbeing: the death of emperors is kept mild; ba-uray is softened to affection rather than an insult; janam akaarath becomes a caring nudge; and family love is honored, not dismissed.
Why puff up over the little you happen to be holding? Nothing came in with you, and nothing goes out.
The Arc
Kabir opens the Bhagat section of Saarang with a gentle challenge to pride (rahau), then widens it: worldly power lasts only a season, like green leaves; no wealth comes or goes with us; even emperors greater than Raawan vanished in a breath. The steady ones are those rooted in the Name, and in the end not even our dearest travel the final road with us, so keep the One close now.
Key Vocabulary
Garab — pride, the puffing-up over small holdings. Har paat — green leaves, alive but only for a season. Raawan — a legendary emperor of immense might in the old stories. Thir — steady, unshaken. Satsang — the company of those who love the One. Ba-uray — rendered as a warm self-nudge, not an insult. Janam akaarath — a caring warning against letting a life drift by unused.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Impermanence of wealth and power; worth apart from possessions; the steadiness of the Name; belonging over having. The turn from clutching to trust rhymes with the whole raag, and the naming of family who cannot follow anticipates Kabir own closing shabad of the block (B00C2734).
For Raag Saarang
Saarang is the raag of longing; Kabir points that longing away from things that fade and toward the One that holds.
Translation Notes
Attribution is clear from the section header raag saarang banee bhagtaan kee / kabeer jee, so this is Bhagat Kabir; the rahau sits in P0, folded into the opening (||1|| rahau). Wellbeing: the death of emperors is kept mild; ba-uray is softened to affection rather than an insult; janam akaarath becomes a caring nudge; and family love is honored, not dismissed.