Standing in a market square
Kabeer wants everyone’s welfare,
Nor friendship to any,
Nor any enmity!
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Kabira khada bazar mein, mange sab ki khair,
Na kahu se dosati, na kahu se bair.
Kabeer advises us to look at everyone with the same equal eye, no one as an undue friend, and no one as foe either; hailing all, hating none. What Isha Upanishad said, and what Bhagavad-Gita too, Kabeer has put it in a layman’s language.
NAYI NAYI AANKHE H HAR CHEHRA ACCHA LAGTA H
SARI DUNIYA MAI SAB KUCH ACCHA LAGTA H
HAR JAGAH SO KAR DEHA H
BUS AB APNA GHAR HI ACCHA LAGTA H
PAHLE KUCH DIN ACCHA LAGTA THA YHA
AB SAB KUCH TANHA TANHA LAGTA YHA
HAR JAGAH SO KAR DEKHA H
BUS AB APNA GHAR HI ACCHA LAGTA H
MAA BAHUT YAAD AATI H YHA TU
KISE KAHU, KYA KAHU SAB KUCH BEGANA LAGTA H
HAR JAGAH SO KAR DEKHA H
BUS AB APNA GHAR HI ACCHA LAGTA H.
Kya batau kese batau
Ki kya mushkile he
Bas itna samajhlo tum
Ki mustakbil gardish me he
Mene saha kese saha
Ki kya halat the wo
Bas tum itna Jaan lo
Ki Jung ab tabish se he
Me jeeyu ese jeeyu
Ki kya majbooriyan thi
Tumko bas itna ilm ho
Taare mere jumbish me he
Me kahu jese kahu
Ki kya me tujhe batalau
sun le tu khajaalat se
ki me ab khalish me hu
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