Satguru Ravidass Maharaj Ji´s Holy Mission & Philosophy. 

Some important facts relating to the life of
Satguru Ravidass Maharaj

Date of Birth : Year 1377 A.D.(Magh Sudi 15,
Bikrami Samvat 1433)
Birth place : Seer Goverdhanpur, Banaras
(Varanasi), U. P. – India
Name of father : Shri Santokh Dass
Name of mother : Shrimati Kalsi Devi
Name of grandfather : Shri Kalu Ram
Name of grandmother : Shrimati Lakhpati
Name of wife : Shrimati Lona
Name of son : Shri Vijay Dass
Date of Brahmleen Sangrand of month of Harh,
(Salvation) : Bikrami Samvat 1584,
(1528 A. D.)
Place of Brahmleen Banaras (Varanasi)
(Salvation) :

SHABAD-31
(Raag Dhanasari)
NAAM TERO ARTI MAJAN MURARE. HAR KE NAAM BIN JHUTHE SAGAL PASARE. ||RAHAAO||
NAAM TERO AASNO NAAM TERO URSA NAAM TERA KESRO LE CHHITKARE. NAAM TERA
AMBHULA NAAM TERO CHANDNO GHAS JAPE NAM LE TUJHEH KAO CHARE. NAAM TERA
DIVA NAAM TERO BATI NAAM TERO TEL LE MAHI PASARE. NAAM TERE KI JOT LAGAI BHAIO
UJIARO BHAVAN SAGLARE. NAAM TERO TAGA NAAM PHOOL MALA BHAR ATHARAH SAGAL
JUTHARE. TERO KIA TUJHEH KIA ARPAO NAAM TERA TUHI CHAVAR DHOLARE. DAS ATHA
ATHSATHE CHARE KHANI IHAI VARTAN HAI SAGAL SANSARE. KAHAI RAVIDASS NAAM TERO
ARTI SAT NAAM HAI HAR BHOG TUHARE ||
O God! Your name is my Aarti and my ablutions.
Without the name of God, all display is in vain.
Your name is my prayer-mat. Your name is my
saffron grater.
Your name is the saffron which I sprinkle.
Your name is the water and Your name is sandal, after
rubbing, I offer it to You.
Your name is the lamp, Your name is its wick, your name
is the oil, I pour therein.
I light the lamp of Your name, which has enlightened the
whole world.
Your name is the string, Your name is the garland of
flowers, and all the eighteen loads of vegetables are too impure
to offer You.
Why should I offer You those things which You have
produced? Your name is the whisk which I whisk over you.
The whole world is engrossed in the eighteen Purans, the
sixty eight places of pilgrimage and the four sources of life.
Ravidass says, Your name is the Aarti, I offer You, Your
True name, O God. 

SHABAD-32
(Raag Dhanasari)
MERI PREET GOPAL SOUN JAN GHATAI HO. MAIN MOL MAHINGE LAYI TAN SATAI HO ||TEK||
RIDAI SUMIRAN KARAHUN NAIN AVLOKNO SARVANA HAR KATHA POORN RAKHUN . MANN
MADHUKAR KARUN CHARNA CHIT DHARON. RAM RASAYAN RASAN CHANKHU. SADH
SANGAT BINA BHAV NEH UPJAY BHAV BIN BHAGAT KYOU HOYAI TERI. BANDAT RAVIDASS
RAJ RAM SUNU BINITI GUR PARSAD KIRPA KARO NA DERI ||
My love for God may not decrease. I have bought it in
exchange of my soul.
I remember You, O God, in my heart. I behold You with
my eyes.
I fill my ears with Your hymns and songs in Your praise.
I make my mind the basement. I put Your lotus feet into
my heart, and with my tongue I utter your ambrosial name.
Without the company of the saints, no love is produced,
and without love no service is performed for You, O God!
Ravidass offers one prayer– give me one chance to have a
glimpse of Your enlightened face. Please do not delay. 

SHABAD-33
(Raag Dhanasari)
TRAHAI TRAHAI TRIBHUVANPAT PAAWAN. ATISHAYA SOOL SAKAL BAL JAWAN ||TEK||
KAM KRODH LAMPAT MANN MORA. KAISE BHAJAN KARU MAIN TORA. BISHAM BISHAD
BIHANDANKARI . ASRAN SARAN BHOHARI. DEV DEV DARBAR DUAARE. RAM RAM RAVIDASS
PUKAARE ||
O Lord of the three worlds, i.e. the entire universe, You
are also the Purifier of sinners, please protect me.
In order to remember You, I am ready to bear worst torture
and undergo sufferings. I can sacrifice my life for You.
My mind is engaged in the sinful acts of anger and sexual
desire.
Therefore how can I recite Your holy name?
O God! After forgetting your name, the human being is
entrapped in the worldly agony.
But when the man takes refuge in You, then all his
sufferings will come to an end.
O God, of all the demi gods and deities, while standing at
the entrance of your court I pray to you that you please allow
me to see your holy face because every coming and going breath
of mine recites your holy name. 

SHABAD-34
(Raag Dhanasari)
DARSHAN DEEJHAI RAM DARSHAN DEEJHAI. DARSHAN DEEJAI BILAMBH NA KEEJAI ||TEK||
DARSHAN TORA JEEVAN MORA. BIN DARSHAN KYO JEEVAY CHAKORA. MADHO SATGUR
SABH JAG CHELA. AB KE BICHURAY MILAN DUHELA. DHAN JOBAN KI JUTHI AASAA. SAT SAT
BHAKHAI JAN RAVIDASSA ||
O God! Please do not delay. Let me see Your fascinating
face. Show Your holy glimpse immediately.
Your glimpse is my life. How can a chakor live without
seeing the moon, O God!
You are the true preceptor of the whole human race; whole
world is Your disciple. After taking birth, if a man remains
departed from You, then it is very difficult to get reunion with
You, O God!
A man, after forgetting God, remains occupied with the
false expectations of wealth and youth. Ravidass tells the truth
that a true lover of God remains always emotionally perturbed
in order to see the holy glimpse of the God. 

SHABAD-35
(Raag Dhanasari)
JAN KO TAR TAR NAATH RAMIYA. KATHIN FAND PARYO PANCH JAMYIA ||TEK|| TUM BIN
SAKAL DEV MUN DHUNDHU. KAHU NA PAAYO JAM PASS CHUDDEYA. HAM SAI DEEN DAYAL
NA TUM SAR. CHARAN SARAN RAVIDASS CHAMIYA ||
O God! I am your disciple; help me to swim across the
sea of existence. I am fully engrossed in the five evils such as
lust, anger, greed, attachment and pride.
I have carefully explored the spiritual power of the saints
and sages and arrived at the conclusion that there is no one else
except You who could save me from the odious clutches of Yamraj.
O God! There is no one as poor as I, and there is no one
as compassionate as You are.
Ravidass tanner has taken shelter in Your lotus feet,
o God! 

SHABAD-36
(Raag Dhanasari)
JO TUM GOPALEAH NEH GAIHO. TO TUM KO SUKH MAIN DUKH UPJAY SUKH KAHAN TAI
PAINHO ||TEK|| MALA NAAM SABHAI JAG DEHKO JHOOTHO BEKH BANAIHO. JHOOTHAI
TE SAANCH TAB HOIHO HAR KI SARAN JAB EH HO. KAN RAS BAT RAS AUR SABHAI RAS
JOOTHAI MURRH MANNDAIHO. JAB LAG TAIL DIYA MAIN BATI DEKHAT HI BUJ JAIHO. JO
JAN RAM NAM RANG RAATAI AUR RANG NA SUHAIHO. KAHAI RAVIDASS BHAJO RE KIRPA
NIDHI PRAN GAYA PACHITAIHO ||
O man! If you will not take refuge in the feet of God,
then you will have to experience agony and grief during the
time of happiness. Then how will you get comfort?
People are engaged in counting the beads, misguiding the
masses. The impersonators are also deceiving the people by
wearing robes.
The untrue will become true, when you will come under
the shelter of God.
The extract of false sayings can give pleasure to ears. But
all such extracts are false.
To get your head shaved is also false.
The life is just like oil in the lamp. The life will come to an
end before your eyes.
The people who have dyed themselves in the permanent
colour of God, then no other colour can be dyed on this fast
colour.
Ravidass says, recite the true name of God, who is treasure
of kindness, gracious and merciful, otherwise you will repent
after death. 

SHABAD-37
(Raag Dhanasari)
PRABHU JI SANGAT SARAN TIHARI. JAG JEEVAN RAM MURARI ||TEK|| GALLI GALLI KO JAL
BEH AAYO SURSAR JAYI SAMAYO. SANGAT KAI PARTAP MAHATAM NAAM GANGODAK PAYO.
SVAANT BOOND BARSAY FANN UPAR SEES BISHAY BISH HOYE. BAHI BUNDH KAI MOTI NIPJAY
SANGAT KI ADKAYI. TUM CHANDAN HUM IRINDH BAPURAI NIKAT TUMHARAI BASA. NEECH
BRIKH TE UNCH BHAYE HAI TUMHARI BAS SHUBASA. JAAT BHI OCHI PAT BHI OCHA UCHAA
KASAB HAMARA. TUMHARI KIRPA TE UUNCH BHAYE HAI KAHAI RAVIDASS CHAMARA ||
O God! I have sought the protection of your true
congregation. You are the giver of life to the whole world.
When the waste water coming out from the streets mingles
with the pure water of the Ganges, then it becomes the holy
water of the Ganges. It shows the greatness of pious
congregation because this waste water adopts the name of the
Ganges.
When the mythical rain drop falls on the hood of a snake
then it becomes poison. But when the same drop of rain falls
into an open sea-shell then it transforms into a pearl.
This is the result of company. O God! You are sandal, I
am a poor castor-oil plant. I dwell near you. Therefore, a humble
shrub has become a lofty tree. Your excellent perfume abides
in me.
O God! My caste is low, my lineage is low, and low is my
profession. But due to your benevolence, I have occupied a
supreme place, says Ravidass, the tanner. 

SHABAD-38
(Raag Dhanasari)
PANDE KAISI PUJ RACHI RE. SAT BOLAI SOI SATWADI JHUTHI BAAT BADI RE ||TEK|| JO
ABINASI SABKA KARTA VIAAP REHIYO SAB THOR RE. PANCH TAT JIN KIYA PASARA SO YO HI
KUCH AUR RE. TU JO KHAIT HO YO HI KARTA YANKU MANNIKH KARAI RE. TARAN SAKAT SAHI
YEH YA MAIN TON APAN KIYOO NA TIRRAI RE. ANHI BHROSAI SABH JAG BOODA SUN PANDAT
KI BAAT RE. YAA KAI DARAS KOON GUNAA CHUTAA SABH JAG AAYA JAT RE. YAA KI SEV SOOL
NEH BHAJAI KATAE NA SANSAI PAAS RE. SOCH VICHAR DEKH YAA MURAT YUN CHAADI
RAVIDASS RE ||
O ritual performing pandit! In the name of God’s worship,
you are spreading superstitions.
The man, who has the courage to speak the truth, is the
only truthful and righteous person, other things are false.
The eternal God is the creator of the universe, who is
also omnipresent. The Transcendent-one has created water,
air, fire, sky and earth, i.e. the five elements.
O pandit, you say that the statue, you worship, is the
Creator of the whole creation. But this statue is prepared by a
man. If we accept that this statue has the miraculous power to
take the man across the ocean of existence, then why not this
idol swims in the water itself ?
By listening and accepting such superstitious talks of the
pandit, the whole world is sinking. Tell me, who has attained
salvation by seeing the idol?
The whole world is entangled in the process of
transmigration of soul. The idol worship, without true
meditation, can neither drive away suffering nor the superstition
and misconception.
Ravidass says, after giving full thought to this point, I have
given up idol worship. 

SHABAD-39
(Raag Jaitsari)
NATH KACHHUA NA JANO. MAN MAYA KAI HATH BIKANAO. || RAHAAO|| TUM KAHIAT HOU
JAGAT GUR SUAMI. HAM KAHIAT KALIJUG KE KAMI. IN PANCHAN MERO MAN JO BIGARIO.
PAL PAL HAR JI TE ANTAR PARIO. JAT DEKHAU TAT DUKH KI RASI. AJOUN NA PATYAE NIGAM
BHAE SAKHI. GOTAM NAR UMAPAT SAWAMI. SIS DHARAN SAHAS BHAG GAMI. IN DUTAN
KHAL BADH KAR MARIO. BADO NILAJ AJHU NAHI HARIO. KAHI RAVIDASS KAHA KAISE
KIJAI. BIN RAGHUNATH SARAN KA KI LIJAI ||
O lord! I know nothing; I have sold my soul to Maya.
You are the great Lord of the world and we are sensualists
of the Kalyug.
The five evil passions have corrupted my heart and have
raised a barrier between You and me.
Wherever I see, there is a stock of trouble. Although, the
Veds bear witness to this even then I am not satisfied.
As for his sin, on the body of Indar, a thousand vagina
were formed.
As the head of Brahma adhered to the hand of Shiv, the
Lord of Uma, due to a sin committed by Brahma, so these
wicked enemies have bound and beaten my mind. I am very
shameless and have not yet grown weary of their company.
Ravidass says, now where I shall go? What shall I do? I
shall seek whose protection except God? 

SHABAD-40
(Raag Suhi)
SAH KI SAR SUHAGAN JANAI. TAJ ABHIMAN SUKH RALIA MANAI. TAN MAN DAIE NA ANTAR
RAKHAI. AVRA DEKH NA SUINAI ABHAKHAI. SO KAT JANAI PIR PARAI. JA KAI ANTAR DARAD
NA PAI ||RAHAAO|| DUKHI DUHAGAN DUE PAKH HINI. JIN NAH NIRANTAR BHAGAT NA
KINI. PUR SALAT KA PANTH DUHELA. SANG NA SATHI GAVAN IKELA. DUKHIA DARADVAND
DAR AAIA. BAHUT PIAS JABAB NA PAIA. KAHI RAVIDASS SARAN PARABH TERI. JIO JANHU
TIO KAR GAT MERI ||
The good wife knows her spouse’s worth. She renounces
pride and enjoys conjugal happiness.
She gives her husband her body and soul, and makes no
distinction between him and herself. She sees no one else,
hears no one else and speaks to no one else.
Who has not tolerated the pang of sufferings, himself, he
cannot understand the woes of others?
The bad wife who has not served her spouse continuously,
she is unhappy and loses both worlds.
It is very difficult to cross the bridge of ‘Pursilat’. She has
to cross it alone because there shall be no companion of the
soul.
In grief and in pain, I have come to your door, O God. I
am very thirsty, but I have received no answer from you.
Ravidass says, O God! I have come to seek refuge in You,
now as you think better provide me salvation. 

SHABAD-41
(Raag Suhi)
JO DIN AVAHI SO DIN JAHI. KARNA KUCH RAHAN THIR NAHI. SANG CHALAT HAI HAM BHI
CHALNA. DOOR GAVAN SIR UPAR MARNA. KIA TU SOIA JAG IANA. TAI JIVAN JAG SACH KAR
JANA. || RAHAAO|| JIN JIO DIA SO RIJAK AMBRAVAI. SABH GHAT BHITAR HAT CHALAVAI.
KAR BANDIGI CHHAD MAI MERA. HIRDAI NAM SAMHAR SAVERA. JANAM SIRANO PANTH
NA SAVARA. SANJH PARI DAH DIS ANDHIARA. KAHI RAVIDASS NIDAN DIVANE. CHETAS NAHI
DUNIA FAN KHANE ||
The days which come, pass away again. We must march
on, nothing is stable.
Our companions are going. We too must have to go. The
journey is long. Death stands over us.
Why are you sleeping? Awake for God’s service, O silly
man. You think that life is a real thing in this world.
He, who gives you life, provides you sustenance. He has
opened a shop in every heart.
You renounce egoism and worship God. You preserve the
name of God in your heart in the morning and remember His
name.
Your life has come to an end. Yet you have not prepared
your way. It is evening time and the darkness has spread out
its wings on all sides.
Ravidass says, O fool and mad man! Why do you not think
that the world is a transitory abode? 

SHABAD-42
(Raag Suhi)
UCHE MANDAR SAAL RASOI. EK GHARI FUN RAHAN NA HOI. IH TAN AISA JAISE GHAS KI
TAATI. JAL GAIO GHAS RAL GAIO MAATI. || RAHAAO|| BHAI BANDH KUTAMB SAHERA. OE
BHI LAGE KADH SAVERA. GHAR KI NAR UREH TAN LAGI. UH TAO BHUT BHUT KAR BHAGI.
KAHI RAVIDASS SABHAI JAG LUTIA. HAM TAO EK RAM KAHI CHHUTIA ||
Man builds lofty mansions with halls and kitchens. But
after his death he cannot stay in them for a moment.
This body is like a hut of grass. When the grass is burnt, it
is blended with the dust.
Even his relations, his family and his companions start
saying, “Take him out quickly.”
A wife, who used to embrace her husband, cries out after
his death, “Ghost! Ghost!,” and runs away from him.
Ravidass says, death has plundered the whole world but I
have escaped by repeating the name of one God. 

SHABAD-43
(Raag Suhi)
DUKHIARI DUKHARA JAG MEH, MANN JAP LAI RAM PIARA RE ||TEK|| GARRH KANCHA
TASKAR TIH LAGA, TU KAHE NA JAAG ABHAGA RE. NAIN UGHAAR NA PEKHYO TUNAI,
MANNUSH JANAM KEH LEKHA RE . PAYOU PASAAR KIM SOI PAREYO, TAI JANAM AKARATH
KOHYA RE. JAN RAVIDASS RAM NIT BHENTHI, REH SANJAM JAGIT PEHRA RE ||
The whole world is full of sufferings. O mind, you recite
the name of God.
Your body is perishable. More over five thieves of immoral
and sinful deeds are bent upon to destroy your body. On
realising this fact, O unfortunate man! Why do you not awake?
You do not see the reality with your own eyes. What is the
use of this birth?
You have wasted this birth without any gain. You have
lost this birth by sleeping and sitting with sprawling limbs.
Ravidass says, O foolish man! Yet there is time to gain
something in this birth. You remember the holy name of God.
By reciting His name create nearness to Him. Restraint and
save yourself from evil deeds. Control yourself. Only then you
can achieve God and make this birth fruitful. 

SHABAD-44
(Raag Bilawal)
DARID DEKH SABH KO HASAI AISI DASA HAMARI. ASAT DASA SIDH KAR TALAI SABH KIRPA
TUMARI. TU JANAT MAI KICHH NAHI BHAV KHANDAN RAM. SAGAL JIA SARNAGATI PARABH
PURAN KAAM. || RAHAAO|| JO TERI SARNAGATA TIN NAHI BHAR. UCH NICH TUM TE TARE
AALAJ SANSAAR. KAHI RAVIDASS AKATH KATHA BAHO KAE KAREEJAI. JAISA TU TAISA TUHI
KIA UPMA DEEJAI ||
Every body used to laugh at me on seeing my poverty,
such was my condition. But I hold the all eighteen
supernatural powers in the palm of my hand through your
favour, O God.
You know I am nothing, O God- destroyer of fear.
All men have sought your protection. O God, You are the
fulfiller of desires.
They, who have sought Your protection, no longer bear
the load of sin. The high and low have been delivered from
the shameless world only due to your kindness.
Why say more regarding the Ineffable? O God! You are
your own parallel. To whom I can compare you, says Ravidass.

SHABAD-45
(Raag Bilawal)
JIH KUL SADH BAISNOU HOE. BARAN ABRAN RANK NAHI ISUR BIMAL BAS JANIAI JAG SOE.
||RAHAAO|| BARAHMAN BAIS SUD AR KHATRI DOM CHANDAR MALECHH MAN SOE. HOE
PUNIT BHAGVANT BHAJAN TE AP TAR TARE KUL DOE. DHAN SO GAO DHAN SO THAO DHAN
PUNIT KUTAMB SABH LOE. JIN PIA SAR RAS TAJE AN RAS HOE RAS MAGAN DARE BIKH KHOE.
PANDIT SUR CHHATARPAT RAJA BHAGAT BARABAR AOR NA KOE. JAISE PURAIN PAT RAHAI
JAL SAMEEP BHAN RAVIDASS JANME JAG OE ||
The family in which a saint of God is born, whether it be
of high or low caste, poor or rich, shall have its unalloyed
fame blazoned through the world.
Whether man be a Brahman, a Vaish, a Shudar, a Khatri, a
Dom, a Chandal or a Maleechh, he becomes pure by worshipping
God. He liberates himself and the families of both his paternal
and maternal parents.
That village is blessed, the birth place is blessed, and his
pious family is blessed in the worlds. He has drunk the elixir of
God’s name, the supreme essence, abandoning all others; he has
become intoxicated with the nectar and thus renounced sin.
Among pandits, heroes and emperors, there is none equal
to the saint. As the leaves of water-lily flourish near the water,
remain dry in the water, like this the saints, while living in the
world remain uncontaminated by it. Ravidass says the birth of
such a saint is auspicious and blessed one. 

SHABAD-46
(Raag Bilawal)
KA TU SOVE JAAG DIWANA. JHUTHA JIVAN SANCH KAR JAANA ||TEK|| JO DIN AAWE SO
DUKH MAIN JAHI. KIJAI KOOCH RAHEYO SACH NAHI. SANG CHALIYO HAI HUM BHI CHALNA.
DUR GWAN SIR UPAR MARNA. JO KACHU BOYA LUNAYE SOI. TA MAI FER FAAR NAHI HOYI.
CHADIYE KOOR BHAJO HAR CHARNA. TA KO MITE JANAM AUR MARNA. JIN JIYO DIYA SO
RIJAK AMRRAVAI. GHAT-GHAT BHITAR REHAT CHALAVAI. KAR BANDGI CHAD MAIN MERA.
HIRDAI KARIM SAMBHAR SAVERA. AAGAI PANTH KHARA HAI JHINA. KHANDE TAAR JAISA
HAI PAINA. JIS UPAR MARAG HAI TERA. PANTHI PANTH SWAAR SWERA. KIYA TEH KHARCHA
KIYA HAI KHAYA. CHAL DARHAL DIBAAN BULAYA. SAHIB TOH PAI LAIKHAN LAISI. BIR PARIYA
TU BHAR BHAR DESI. JANAM SIRANA KIYA PSARA SAMVARA. SANJH PARI CHAHU DIS
ANDHARA. KEH RAVIDASS NIDAAN DIVANA. AJHU NA CHETE DUNI FANDKHANA ||
O mad-man! Why are you sleeping? Awake from the sleep
of ignorance. You think that the false life is true and eternal.
In reality this world is perishable. The day which comes, passes
away again. We have too march on, nothing remains stable.
Our companions are going; we too must have to go; the journey
is long. Death stands over us.
What you have sown, you will have to harvest the same.
Therefore, you worship God, lay aside falsehood. Only then
your cycle of birth and death will come to an end.
He, who has given you life, will provide sustenance. In
every heart, he has opened a shop. You worship God by giving
up egoism.
The way after death is difficult and like double-edged
sword. Therefore, you should reform this way by remembering
the name of God in the morning.
The god of death i.e. Yam will enquire from you, what
you have spent and what you have taken? Then God will ask
for account of noble deeds. When you will be in trouble, then
you will be provided relief from the account of virtuous deeds.
Your life has gone; even then, you are sitting with sprawling
limbs. The evening time has come and the darkness has spread
its wings in all directions.
Ravidass says, O silly man! You have forgotten that the
world is perishable. 

SHABAD-47
(Raag Bilawal)
KHALIK SIKSATA MAIN TERA. DE DIDAR UMEDGAAR BAIKARAR JEEYO MERA ||TEK|| AVAL
AAKHIR EILAH AADIM MOJ FARISTA BANDA. JIS KI PANAH PEER PAINGAMBAR MAIN GARIB
KIYA GANDA. TU HAJARAA HAJOOR JOG EIK AWAR NAHI DUJA. JISKE EISAK AASRA NAHI
KIYA NIWAAJ KIYA PUJA. NALIDOJJ HANOJ BEBAKHAT KUM KHIDAMATIGAR TUMAARA.
DARMANNDA DAR JAVAB NA PAVAI KEH RAVIDASS BICHARA ||
O Creator! In spite of the fact that I am a broken man,
even then, I am Your servant. My heart is anxious to have a
glimpse of Your glittering face.
O God! You are the beginning and the end of this world.
Angels and men are reciting Your name happily. The holy men
and prophets have taken refuge in You, then why should not I
poor man sought Your protection?
O God! You are omnipresent. There is no one parallel to
You in the world. The man, who has not taken protection of
Your love, he may perform prayer, but all useless.
A man, who is ignorant about You, is suffering like a worm
of drain. He is selfish but he is Your attendant,
Ravidass, after careful thought says, O God, a fully tired
man has requested You to reveal Your identity but so far he has
not received any positive answer, therefore he is suffering. 

SHABAD-48
(Raag Bilawal)
JO MOH BAIDAN KAASAN AAKHUN HAR BIN JEEVAN KAISE KAR RAKHO ||TEK|| JIV TARSAI
EIK DANG BASERA KARHO SAMBHAL TUM SIRJAN MERA. BIRAH TAPAI TANN ADHIK JARAVAI
NEEND NA AAVAI BHOJAN NA BHAVAI. SAKHI SAHALI GARABH GAHELI PEEYU KI BAAT NA
SUNUH SAHALI. MAIN RE DUHAGAN ADIKAR JAANI GAYO SO JOBAN SAADH NA MAANI. TU
DANA SAYIN SAHIB MERA KHIDMATGAAR BANDA MAIN TERA. KAHAI RAVIDASS ANDESA
YEHI BIN DARSAN KIYON JEEVEH SNEHI ||
O brother! I am feeling pang of the separation from God,
but I cannot explain the same in words. How shall I spend my
life without God?
O God! I am longing for your kind grace. You, kindly
provide me protection and take care of me. Without seeing
Your face my soul is suffering pang of separation. Due to the
heat of disunion my body is burning. Neither I can take food
nor can I sleep.
My companions such as organs of action and sense organs
are under influence of pride and do not obey my wishes. I am
just like a deserted woman. Till now I have committed sins
only. Though my youthfulness has passed away even then I
could not follow the right path.
O God! You the only wise and intellectual Master of mine
and I am Your servant. Ravidass says O God! I have only one
apprehension in my mind, O beloved God, how can I live
without seeing Your holy face? 

SHABAD-49
(Raag Bilawal)
TA THAIN PATIT NAHI KO PAWAN HAR TAJJ AAN NA DHIYAYA RE. HUM APUJ PUJ BHAYE HAR
THAI NAAM ANUPAM GAAYA RE ||TEK|| ASTADAS BUYAKARAN BAKHANAI RE TEEN KAAL
KHAT JEETA RE. PREM BHAGAT ANTAR GAT NAHI TA TE DHANUK NEEKA RE. TA THAI BHALO
SWAN KO SATAR HAR CHARAN NA CHIT LAYA RE. MUAYA MUKAT BAINKUTH BASA JEEVAT
EIHA JAS PAAYA RE. HUM APRADHI NEECH GHAR JANMAIN KUTAMBH LOK KARAI HAANSI
RE. KAHAI RAVIDASS RAM JAP RASNA KAATAI JANAM KI PAASI RE ||
O Purifier of sinners, none is superior to you. Therefore,
why we should remember any demi-god? We were not worthy
or respectable but due to the meditation of God, we have
become sacred and respectable.
Eighteen Purans and grammar books told that a pious
devotee is considered victorious of the three ages and six
actions. A man whose heart is not inclined towards worship is
considered to be a low man.
That man is supreme, who has conquered the dog of greed
and dedicated himself to the feet of God. He attains salvation
after death, glory and fame while living in the world.
I am a criminal and sinner, who have taken birth in a low
family. The people of my caste laugh at me.
Ravidass says, the man who will recite the name of God
with his tongue, can save himself from the noose of god of
death. Therefore, O man, remember the name of God. 

SHABAD-50
(Raag Bilawal)
AISA HI HAR KIYO PYIVO, MANN CHANCHAL RE BHAI. CHAPAL BHAYO CHOUDIS DHAVIE,
RAKHIEO RAHAI ||TEK|| MAIN MERI CHUTYE NEH KABHUN, MAIN MAMTA MADHU BIDHIO.
LOBH MOH MEH REHYO RUJHANO, NIT VISHIYA RAS RIJHIYO. DAM KOH MOH MAYA BASS,
KAPAT KURR HOON BANDHIYO. KAAM LUBDHU KAU BAS PARIYO, KULKAAN CHHARH
BIKAYO. CHHAPA TILAK CHHAPAU NAHI SOBHIYE, JAU LAU KESAU NEIH GAYEO.SANJAM
REHYO NA HAR HUN SIMRIO, BIRTHA BHARMIO ROO BHARMAIYO. ANIK KOTAK KALA
KACHHAI KACHHE, BUHAR SAANG DIKHAVO. MURAKH AAPAN AAP SAMUJ NEH, AURAN
KA SAMJHAVO. AAS KARAI BAIKUNTH GAVAN KOU, CHAL MANN KABHU NA THIRAIO. JAU
LAU MANN VAS NEH HUNTAU, TAU LAGH SABH JUTHARIO. KAPAT KIYA RIJHAE NEH KAISAU,
JAGG KARTA NEH KAANCHA. KEH RAVIDASS BHAJAO HAR MADHO, SEWAG HOVAI MANN
SAANCHA ||
O brother! So far your mind is not stable, you cannot
achieve God. It is the habit of the mind to roam in all the four
directions. The mind cannot be controlled by making efforts.
You do not renounce the desire of pride and belongings.
O man! You get involved in evils of greed and affection. You
remain occupied in enjoying the false happiness of sexual
desires.
You are fully trapped in the evils of pride, anger, false
hood and treachery. The sense of sexual desire and greed has
entrapped you thus you are causing severe dent on the
conventional rules of your family.
O Vaishnavite! If you do not sing songs in praise of God
from your heart, then it will be of no use to apply saffron mark
on your forehead. You do not spend your life in self-control,
and you do not recite the name of God, rather you misled the
people by preaching erroneous beliefs.
You exhibit miracles but you know nothing about yourself
rather advise others. You aspire for heaven but cannot control
your mind. If you do not control the mind till then everything
is false.
The God does not become happy with the person who
commits fraud because he is the Creator and experienced one.
Ravidass says, O man! O Vaishnavite!! Recite the true and pure
name of God in your mind. 

SHABAD-51
(Raag Bilawal)
KAA GAYOUN KACHHU GAYE NA HOI, GAYOUN ROOP SEHJAI SOYE ||TEK|| NEH AKAAS NEH
DHAR DHARNI, PAWAN PUR GHAT CHANDA. NEH AB RAM KISAN GUN BHAI, BOLAT HAI
SUCHH CHHANDA. NEH AB BED KATEB PURANAN, SUN SEHAJ RE BHAI. NEH AB MAIN TAIN,
TAIN MAIN NAHI, KA SEYU KAHO BATAYE. BHANAI RAVIDASS KA KEH GAYOUN, GAAIN GAYE
HARAANA. SAMUJH BICHAR BOL KAHAN GHOU, AAPHI AAP SAMANNA ||
What shall I sing? I am unable to sing a song in the praise
of God because by singing such songs I have attained the state
of spiritual calm.
After achieving the state of ecstasy, there is neither any
sky for me nor the earth. I do not feel the blowing wind or see
the moon in the sky or any city on the earth. I have forgotten
the splendour of Ram and Krishan. I am telling you the truth.
I do not rejoice to listen to the Veds and Purans in this
state of spiritual ecstasy. Between me and You and between
You and me, all differences have gone. To whom should I reveal
this secret?
While singing the songs in praise of God, I have fully
absorbed in Him. Now how shall I sing and for whom I shall
sing? All my songs have finished, says Ravidass. As I have
absorbed in the God. 

SHABAD-52
(Raag Bilawal)
AB KA KEH KAUN BATAUN. AB KA KEH DEBAL DEV SAMAYU ||TEK|| KA SIYOUN RAM KAHO
SUN BHAI, KA SIYOUN KISAN KAREEMA. KA SIYOUN BAID KATEB KAHUN AB, KA SIYOUN
KAHUN LAIYO LEENA. KA SIYOUN TIRATH BHARAT PUJA, KA SIYOUN NAO KAHAO. KA SIYOUN
BHISIT DOJIG NA SAT KAR, KA SIYOUN KAHUN KAHAYE. KA SIYOUN JEEV SEEV KAHAU
SADHAU, SUNN SEHAJ GHAR BHAI. KA SIYOUN GUNI NA GHUN KAHUN MADHO, KA SIYOUN
KAHUN BATAAI. JAL KE TRANG JAL MAH SAMAYI, KEH KA KAU NAAV DHARIYE. AISE EK
ROOP MAIN MADHO, APPAN HI NIRVARIYE. BHANAI RAVIDASS AB KA KEH GAAYU, JAYO KOI
AURHAI HOI. JA SIYO GAEAYE GAYAI KAHAT HAI, PARAM ROOP HUM SOI ||
O man! What shall I tell you about God? How he looks?
Under which name I shall worship Him in the temple?
To whom I shall address by the holy name of Ram, Krishan
or Karim. After renouncing the name of God, which Ved or
Puran shall I study? Both religious sacred scriptures have
achieved equal status in my eyes.
Which place, I shall call a place of pilgrimage or
meditation? How shall I define fast and worship? Which is the
true name to remember? Which places I shall call by the name
of heaven and hell?
To whom I shall call the benefactor except God, who has
acquired a perfect state of mental tranquility?
I shall call Him without attributes or endowed with qualities
of attributes. The God possesses which merit of these two?
You tell me when a wave, which takes birth from the water
and gets absorbed in the same water then with which name we
shall call it. Like this O God! There is no difference between
You and me, between the soul and God. Both are integral part
of each other. O God! Please elevate me from such situation.
Ravidass says, in whose praise I shall sing songs, because
there is none else except God. To whom shall I ask to sing in
His praise, because I have already absorbed in the God and
adopted His form? 

SHABAD-53
(Raag Bilawal)
KHOJAT KITHU FIRAY, TERE GHAT MAIN SIRJANHAR|| TEK || KASTURI MRIG PASS HAI RE,
DHUDHAT GHAS FIRAY.|PACHHAY LAGGO KAL PARTHI, CHIN MEH PRAN HARAY. EIRRA
PINGLA SUKHMANNA NARRI, JA MAIN CHIT NA DHRAY SEHASTAR MEH BHAVAR GUFA HAI,
BHAVRA GUNJ KARAY. DIL DARYAV HEERA LAL HAI, GURMAKH SAMAJ PARE. MARJI VA KI
SAIN VICHARAY, TAYO HEERA HATH PARAY. KEH RAVIDASS SAMUJH RE SANTO, EHU PADH
HAI NIRVAN. EHU REHAS KOYOU KHOJAI BUJHAY SOU HAI SANT SUJAN ||
O man! You are searching the God outside, whereas, the
Creator lives in your inner-self. As musk is in the deer itself
but the deer searches the musk in the forest.
The god of death is after you and he will pull out your
soul in a moment. According to yoga, you do not concentrate
on the three wind passages and recite the name of God.
You should realise that the cave, in which the flower
sucking bee resounds is situated in your body itself.
The precious diamond of God’s name is lying in the river
of heart. But only a Guru oriented devout can realise this fact.
If a devotee, after taking a lesson from that person, who is
trifling his life in order to dig out diamond and pearls from the
deep sea, dives in his heart, he will definitely be successful in
locating the diamond of God’s name.
Ravidass says, O man! This state of mind is called
salvation. The man, who discovers this truth, will be the pious
saint in real sense. 

SHABAD-54
(Raag Bilawal)
SANTO KUL PAKHI BHAGAT HAIVSI KALYUG MAIN, NIPAKH BIRLA NIVHAISI. JAAN PACHHAN
HARISH MANNN HULSAI, BIN PICHAAN MILAT MURJHASI. APSVARATH PARMADH,
DAYADHAY, PARMARATH NA DIRRASI. BIN BISVAS BAANJH SUT JAYESAI, HAR KAARAN KIYUN
RASI. BHAV BHAGAT HIRDAI NEH AASI, VISHAI LAAGI SUKH PASSI. KEH RAVIDASS POORA
GUR PAVAY, SWANG KI SWANG DUKHASI ||
O saints! The worship is partial in the Kalyug. Therefore,
there will hardly be anyone, who remains neutral or
unprejudiced in this age.
A man remains happy in the partial meditation, to which
he belongs but gets perturbed to see the other type of worship
to whom he does not like and hence feels dejected.
The self-interested topics are luring men in the sea of fire.
People do not know the best object of religious pursuit and
they do not stick to it.
A barren woman does not believe that she can give birth
to a child, like this the man cannot acquire faith to swim the
ocean of existence, without reciting the name of God.
In the mind of a renegade person, the desire to remember
the name of God does not appear as he gives preference to the
worldly desires.
Ravidass says that a person shall take refuge in a true
Guru otherwise he has to suffer while indulging in partial
meditation. 

SHABAD-55
(Raag Bilawal)
PAANDE! HAR VICH ANTAR DADHA. MUND MUNDAVAI SEWA PUJA BHRAM KA BANDHAN
GAADHA || TEK|| MALA TILAK MANNOHAR BANNO LAGGO JAMM KI PASSI. JO HAR SAITI
JORRYO CHAHO TO JAG SO RAHO UDASI. BHUKH NA BHAJAI TRISNA NA JAYI KAHO KAUN
KAVAN GUN HOI. JO DADH MAI KAANJI KO JAVAN TO GHRIT NA KADHAI KOI. KARNI KATHNI
GYAN ACHARA BHAGAT INHU SO NYARI. DOI GHORA CHAD KOYO NA PHUNCHO SATGURU
KAHAY PUKARI. JO DASA TANN KIYO CHAHO AAS BHAGAT KI HOYI. TOH NIRMAL SANGH
MAGAN HAVAY NACHO LAAJ SARAM SABH KOI. KOI DADHO KOI SEEDHO SAACHO KURR NIT
MARYAA. KAHAI RAVIDASS HAU NA KAHAT HAU YOKADASHAI PUKARIYA ||
O pandit ! There is a great difference in the rituals you are
performing and the true worship of God. During your religious
discourse, you preach people to worship God after getting their
heads shaved.
After wearing string of beads, applying saffron mark on
your forehead and looking beautiful, you cannot save yourself
from the clutches of the messenger of death i.e. Yam. If you
like to cultivate your relationship with God, then you should
reside in this world with full detachment.
But you have not so far renounced the lust. You tell
me which virtuous merit you possess? A woman has to
coagulate milk with curd and not with any other sour
substance to make ghee.
Neither your sayings and deeds, nor your knowledge and
behaviour are suitable for worship. The worship is some thing
else and peculiar. My Guru is advising in loud voice that no
one can reach his destination while riding on two horses.
If you want to get your name added in the list of God’s
servants and want to worship God with full devotion then you
have to dance in the open by leaving aside your modesty and
shyness.
But you have been cheating the people by telling them
right or wrong. Ravidass says, I alone do not say this but other
holy saints have also preached this truth loudly that true
meditation destroys ignorance. 

SHABAD-56
(Raag Bilawal)
MANN MERO THIRU NA RAHAYI, KOT KOTAK KAR DIKHRAVAI, EIT UTT JAGG MAIN DHAYI
||TEK|| MAYA MAMTA MOH LAPTANO, DIN DIN URJAT JAAYI. SUAAN PUCH KABHU HOYE
NA SUDHO, KEEJHU LAKH UPAYI. GURU KO GIAN PREM KI SAANTI, KUBUDH KUKARAM
CHURRAYI. KEH RAVIDASS MANN THIRU HAISVI, CHAL SABH CHADH GURSARNAYI ||
My mind is not stable; it is performing numerous worldly
activities and wandering hither and thither in the world.
It is said that after making numerous efforts the tail of a
dog does not become straight. Such is the state of my mind.
O mind! Now the time has come to acquire the Guru’s
divine knowledge and with the help of baton of love you dispel
all sinful deeds. Ravidass says, O mind! You should now take
refuge in the name of Guru by giving up all evil deeds. 

SHABAD-57
(Raag Bilawal)
HUM GHAR AAYEO RAM BHATAR, GAVAHU SAKH MIL MANNGLACHAR. TANN MANN RATT
KARHIN AAPNO, TAU KAHUN PAIEHIN PIV PIAR. PRITAM KO JO DARSHAN PAAYI, MANN
MANDHAR MEHIN BHEYO UJIAR. HAUN MARRAI TAI NAU NIDHI PAYI, KIRPA KEENHI RAM
KARTAR. BAHUT JANAM BICHURAI PIV PAIEYO, JANAM JANAM TAI BILIE RAR. KEH RAVIDASS
HAU KACHHU NEH JANAU, CHARAN KAWANAL MEH TUV MURAR ||
O generous one! The saints of God have arrived at my
house today. Therefore, on this occasion of happiness, come
and join me to sing the invocatory songs in their praise.
When a devotee dedicates his mind, body and soul to the
Guru, only then he gets the love of God in return.
After having a glimpse of my beloved God, the divine
light has spread in the temple of my mind. By the grace of
God, I have achieved nine treasures of Kuber.
I have been separated from God for the past so many births.
Now I have achieved Him. Thus all my disputes of births have
come to an end.
Ravidass says, I do not know too much about the
wonderful act of the Transcendent one. But it is true that I
have taken refuge in the holy lotus feet of God. 

SHABAD-58
(Raag Bilawal)
KALHU NAYI TAH PAD SEES, NEH BISRAYOUN KHIN EIKHU EESH ||TEK|| JANAM MARAN
ARU JAGG JALA, NAAM PARTAP NA BIAPEH BYALA. AGAT VIGAT ANADH ANOOPA, VISHAV
VIAPAK BRHAM AROOPA. GHAT GHAT TEH PAIKHIYAT AIESAI, JAL MEH LEHAR, LEHAR JAL
JAYESAI. KEH RAVIDASS HAR SARAB VIAPAK, SARABH CHINTAMAN SARABH PRITPALAK ||
In the Holy feet of God, the god of death, Yam, himself
bows his head. I do not forget this God even for a moment.
The man is occupied in the cycle of birth and death, and
other worldly affairs. The glory of the name of God is so great
that the snake of worldly charms cannot bite the devotee.
The God is inapproachable, inaccessible and boundaryless.
The God has no beginning. The God has no comparison.
The God is eternal, unique and universal. The Creator is
formless and invisible.
He is fully absorbed in every particle of the universe like
waves in the water. Ravidass says, the God is omnipresent. He
cares for every one and eradicates worries of His devotees. He
is nourishing and protecting the whole world. 

SHABAD-59
(Raag Gaund)
MUKAND MUKAND JAPAHU SANSAR. BIN MUKAND TAN HOE AUHAR. SOI MUKAND MUKAT
KA DATA. SOI MUKAND HAMRA PIT MATA. JIVAT MUKANDE MARAT MUKANDE. TA KE SEVAK
KAO SADA ANANDE. ||RAHAAO|| MUKAND MUKAND HAMARE PARANAN. JAP MUKAND
MASTAK NISANAN. SEV MUKAND KARAI BAIRAGI. SOI MUKAND DURBAL DHAN LADHI. EK
MUKAND KARAI UPKAR. HAMRA KAHA KARAI SANSAR. METI JAT HUE DARBAR. TUHI
MUKAND JOG JUG TAR. UPJIO GYAN HUA PARGAS. KAR KIRPA LEENE KEET DAS. KAHO
RAVIDASS AB TARISNA CHUKI. JAP MUKAND SEVA TAHU KI ||
O worldly man! You repeat the name of God, the
Dispenser of salvation. Without the Dispenser of salvation,
the body is going waste.
The Dispenser of salvation is the giver of deliverance.
The Dispenser of salvation is our father and mother.
Living persons repeat His name. The man while dying also
repeats His name. His worshipper is ever happy.
The Dispenser of salvation is my life. When I repeat the
name of the Dispenser of salvation, then it has been recorded
on my forehead.
Only he who has ceased to love the world can serve the
God. I am a weak man but still I have obtained the Dispenser
of salvation as my wealth.
If the Dispenser of salvation do me a favour, then
what can the world do to me? When the supreme God
has been showering His eternal blessings on me, then no
one can harm me.
Having effaced my caste, I have become a courtier of
God. You are able to save the world, O God.
Divine knowledge has sprung up and I have become
enlightened. God has, graciously accepted this worm as
His slave.
Ravidass says, my thirst has now ceased. I repeat the name
of God and perform His service. 

SHABAD-60
(Raag Gaund)
JE OH ATHSATH TIRATH NHAVAI. JE OH DUADAS SILA PUJAVAI. JE OH KUP TATA DEVAVAI.
KARAI NIND SABH BIRTHA JAVAI. SADH KA NINDAK KAISE TARAI. SARPAR JANHU NARAK HI
PARAI. ||RAHAAO|| JE OH GARAHAN KARAI KULKHET. ARPAI NAR SIGAR SAMET. SAGLI
SIMRIT SARVANI SUNAI. KARAI NIND KAVNAI NAHI GUNAI. JE OH ANIK PARSAD KARAVAI.
BHUM DAAN SOBHA MANDAP PAVAI. APNA BIGAR BIRANNA SANDHAI. KARAI NIND BAHO
JONI HANDHAI. NINDA KAHA KARAHU SANSARA. NINDAK KA PARGAT PAHARA. NINDAK
SODH SADH BICHARIA. KAHO RAVIDASS PAAPI NARAK SIDHARIA ||
If a man bathe at the sixty-eight places of pilgrimage, if
he worship the twelve Lingam stones, if he dedicate a well but
practise slander then all shall be in vain.
How shall the slanderer of a saint be saved? He knows
that he shall fall into hell, surely.
If a man observe eclipses at Kurukshetar, offer his wife
with her decorations of ornaments to a Brahman and hear all
the Simritis with ears, yet if he practise slander, then all shall
be in vain.
If he prepares many feasts to Brahmans, make then gift of
land and build for them splendid public mansions. If, neglecting
his own business, he perform that of others, and yet practice
slander, he shall wander in many births. Why do you slander,
O people?
The character of a slander is well known.
Holy men have considered and decided regarding the
slanderer. Ravidass says, he is sinner, and shall go to hell. 

SHABAD-61
(Raag Gaund)
AAJ DIVAS LAIUN BALIHARA. MERE GREH AAYA RAJA RAM KA PYARA ||TEK|| AANGAN
BAGARR BHAWAN BHAYO PAWAN. HARIJAN BAITHAI HARJAS GAVAN. KARUN DANDOT
CHARAN PAKHARUN. TANN MANN DHANN SANTAN PAR WARUN. KATHA KAHAYE AUR
ARTH BICHAREH. AAP TARAI AURAN KO TARAY. KEH RAVIDASS MILAY NIJ DASS. JANAM
JANAM KAI KAATAI PASS ||
I express deep devotion for the day, because to-day a
supreme saint, who is dear to Almighty, has come to my house.
My entire house including its courtyard, where the holy
persons gather to sing songs in praise of God, has become
pure with the coming of this saint.
I salute the saint by lying prostrate on the ground. I wash
his feet and offer my mind, body and wealth to him.
The saint preaches and analyses the message of God. He
has the spiritual power to swim himself and help his devotees
to swim across the ocean of existence.
Ravidass prays to God, “I wish to meet such holy saints
daily, who have the power to liberate their devotees from the
bondage of birth, death and rebirth.” 

SHABAD-62
(Raag Gaund)
AISE JAAN JAPO RE JEEV. JAP LIYO RAM NA BHARMO JEEV || TEK|| GANIKA THI KIS KARMA
JOG. PAR PURSAN SO RAMTI BHOG. NISI BASAR DUSKARAM KAMAYI. RAM KEHAT
BAIKUNTHAI JAYI. NAMDEV KAHIYEAY JAAT KAI OCHH. JA KO JASS GAEAI TIRLOK. BHAGAT
HAIT BHAGTA KAI CHALAI. ANKMAAL KAI BEETHAL MILAY. KOT YAG JO KOYU KARE. RAM
NAM SUM TAU NA NISTARAI. NIRGUN KA DUKH DEKHO AAYI. DEHI SAHIT KABIR SIDHAEI.
MORI KUCHIL JAT KUCHIL MAIN BAAS. BHAGAT CHARAN HARICHARAN NIWAS. CHARYO
BED KIYA KHANDOT. JAN RAVIDASS KARAI DANDOT ||
O man! You endeavour to know the omnipresent God
and remember His name. If you will recite His name then all
your mental unrest will come to an end.
Do you know Ganika was a prostitute, who does immoral
acts throughout the day and night? But due to the company of
saints she took solemn pledge to refrain from undesirable acts
and as a result of reciting the name of God, she achieved
heaven, the abode of God.
People consider that saint Namdev, belonged to a low caste
but now his praise is being sung in all the three worlds. The
God, keeping in view the worship of a man, meets him. A
man, who recites the name of God, attains Bethel - the God.
A man may perform crores of yags, but without remembering
the holy name of God, he cannot swim the ocean of existence.
This was the miracle of the God that saint Kabir, as a
result of reciting the name of transcendent God, entered heaven
with his mortal frame.
O God! People know me as a cobbler hailing from a low
caste but due to the company of saints I have attained a place
in your feet.
Ravidass says, I refute the sayings of four Veds, which
have divided the humanity into four castes. I only bow before
God and pay obeisance by lying prostrate on the ground in
front of Him. 

SHABAD-63
(Raag Ramkali)
PARIAI GUNIAI NAAM SABH SUNIAI ANBHAO BHAO NA DARSAI. LOHA KANCHAN HIRAN
HOE KAISE JAO PARSEH NA PARSAI. DEV ! SANSAI GANTH NA CHHUTAI. KAM KRODH MAYA
MAD MATSAR IN PANCHAHU MIL LUTE. || RAHAAO|| HAM BAD KAB KULIN HAM PANDIT
HAM JOGI SANIASI. GIANI GUNI SUR HAM DATE IH BUDH KABEH NA NASI. KAHO RAVIDASS
SABHAI NAHI SAMJHAS BHUL PARE JAISE BAURE. MOHI ADHAR NAAM NARAIN JIVAN PARAN
DHAN MORE ||
O men! You study and hear all the names of God, yet
God’s designs are unknown.
How shall iron become pure gold unless it is touched by
the philosopher’s stone?
O God! The knots of doubt are unsolved. Lust, wrath,
worldly love, pride and jealously – these five combined sins
are plundering the world.
We are great poets of high family, we are Pandits, we are
Jogis, Sanyasis, Gianis, virtuous heroes, we are generous – these
ideas shall never perish.
Ravidass says, all these men do not understand God. They
go astray like madmen. God’s name is my support, my life, my
soul and my wealth. 

SHABAD-64
(Raag Ramkali)
PARCHAI RAM RAMAI JO KOI PARAS PARSAI DUBIDA NA HOI || TEK|| JO DISAI SO SAKAL
BINAS ANDITHAI NAAHI VISWAS. BARAN SAHIT KAHAI JO RAM SO BHAGTA KEWAL NIHKAM.
PHAL KAARAN PHULE BANRAYI UPJAI PHAL TAB PUHUP BILAYI. GIANEH KAARAN KARAM
KARAYI UPJAI GIAN TAB KARAM NISAYI. BATIK BEEJ JAISA AAKAR PASREYO TEEN LOK PASAR.
JAHA KA UPJA TAHA SAMAYI SEHAJ SHUNAY MAIN REHYO LUKAYI. JO MANN BINDAI SOI
BIND AMAVAS MAINJAISE DEESAI CHAND. JAL MAIN JAISE TUMBA TIRAI PARCHAI PIND
JEEVAI NEH MARAI. SO MUN KAUN JU MANN KO KHAI BIN DWARE TIRLOK SAMAI. MANN
KI MEHMA SAB KOAI KAHAI KARTA SO JO ANBHAI RAHAI. KAHAI RAVIDASS YAHU PARAM
BAIRAAG RAM NAMU KEEN JAPHU SUBHAG. GHARIT KARAN DADH MADHAI SAYAN JEEVAN
MUKAT SADAA NIRBAN ||
Any one, who worships God, will definitely achieve Him.
As iron when touched by the ‘philosopher’s stone’ at once
becomes gold, like this when God, the philosopher’s stone touch
a man then his duality shall no longer remain.
Every thing that we see in the world is perishable. We do
not trust without seeing Him. He who repeats the name of
God with every alphabet is the only devotee free from desires.
Vegetables blossom to produce fruit. When the fruit
appears, the blossoms decay.
For the sake of divine knowledge, a man practises religious
ceremonies. When divine knowledge is obtained, then religious
ceremonies are not performed.
The vast universe, spread over three worlds, is just like a
small seed of banyan tree. Every one takes birth from God
and ultimately, will take refuge in Him. The Creator is
concealing Himself in the state of spiritual calm and absolute
silence.
The mind is part and parcel of God, but the mind cannot
see the God without reciting His name. Like this the moon is
there in the sky on moonless night but we cannot see it. Similarly
God is omnipresent, but due to our ignorance we could not
visualise Him.
A man who does not take interest in realising the God,
but spends his time in realising his body, he is just like a dead
man and his body like a hollowed shell, floats in the water. He
who destroys the duality of his mind, is really a Muni. He will
be absorbed in God. Three worlds are the abode of that God.
Every body acts according to his natural inclinations. It is
only the Creator who abides without fear.
Ravidass says, having embraced supreme renunciation,
why do not you repeat the name of God, O unlucky man?
The wise women churn coagulated milk in order to make
butter. Only those people, who strive for divine knowledge,
will obtain salvation. 

SHABAD-65
(Raag Ramkali)
AB MAIN HARYO RAI BHAI. THAKIT BHAYO SABH HAAL CHAAL TAI LOKAN BED BARRAI
||TEK|| THAKIT BHAYO GAYAN AUR NACHAN THAKI SEWA PUJA KAAM KRODH TE DEH
THAKIT BHAI KAHU KAHA LAU DUJA. RAM JAN HOYU NA BHAGAT KAHAYUN CHARAN
PAKHARU NA DEVA. JOI JOI KARUN ULAT MOH BANDHAI TA TE NIKAT NA BHAIVA. PEHLAI
GIAN KA KIYA CHANDNA PEECHAI DIYA BUJHAYI. SHUN SEHAJ MAIN DOU TIAGAI RAM
KAHUN NA KHUDAYI. DUR BASAI KHAT KARAM SAKAL AR DUREU KEENEH SAIU. GIANDHAYAN
DOYU DOOR KINAIH DURIU CHHADAI TAIU. PANCHO THAKIT BHAYO HAI JAHAN
TAHAN JAHAN TAHAN THIT PAAYI. JA KAARAN MAIN DOREYON FIRTO SO ABH GHAT MAIN
PAYI. PANCHO MERI SAKHI SAHELI TIN NIDH DAYI DIKHAYI. AB MANN PHOOL BHAYO JAG
MEHIYA ULAT AAP MAI SAMAI. CHALAT CHALAT MERO NIJ MANN THAKYO AB MO SE CHALAO
NA JAAYI. SAAYI SEHAJ MILYO SOI SANMUKH KEHAI RAVIDASS BARRAI ||
O fellow brothers! Now I am defeated. People are giving
importance to the Veds and Shastars in place of God. After
seeing this attitude of the people, I feel exhausted.
Without true devotion to God, the singing, dancing,
performing rituals, doing service, are all fruitless. My body has
exhausted due to passion, anger and other immoral deeds. In
these circumstances how a man can attain God with the help
of false rituals?
I am a servant of God. Neither I worship a deity nor I
wash the feet of a deity, but without reciting the name of
God, what so ever I do, it entangles me in the illusion.
Therefore, I do not indulge in false rituals.
I lit the lamp of knowledge which has eradicated the
darkness of ignorance. After reaching the state of spiritual
calm and absolute silence, I have renounced the both. Now
neither I worship Ram, thinking Him the supreme God nor
Rahim.
I have given up the six acts, enshrined in the Veds and
Shastars. Now I also have no concern with the worship of Shiv.
After attaining the state of spiritual calm and bliss, I feel
liberated from such knowledge and devotion.
After overcoming the five immoral deeds, I have attained
a firm position. In order to achieve God, I was running hither
and thither, I have achieved that God from within.
Now the immoral five senses have become my friends. By
controlling these five senses, I have attained God. The mind,
who was feeling pride in singing the praise of world, has now
absorbed in the God.
While travelling, my mind has become fully exhausted. I
cannot walk further. Ravidass says that renouncing false rituals,
I have attained the state of spiritual calm and bliss, where I
have directly come into contact with God. 

SHABAD-66
(Raag Ramkali)
GAYAI GAYAI AB KA KEH GAAYUN. GAWANHAAR TU NIKAT BATAYU ||TEK|| JAB LAG HAI YA
TANN KI AASAA TABH LAG KARAI PUKARA. JAB MANN MILIYO AAS NEH TANN KI TABHKO
GAWANHARA. JAB LAG NADI NA SAMUND SMAVAI TAB LAG BADAI HUNKARA . JAB MANN
MILIYO RAM SAGAR SO TAB YEH MITI PUKARA. JAB LAG BHAGAT MUKAT KI AASAA PARAM
TATT SUN GAVAI. JAHAN JAHAN AAS DHARAT HAI YEH MANN TAHAN TAHAN KACHU NA
PAVAI. CHADAI AAS NIRAAS PARAM PADH TAB SUKH SAT KAR HOYI. KAHE RAVIDASS JA SUU
AUR KEHAT HAI PARAM TATT AB SOYI ||
I have been singing in praise of God. Now I have achieved
Him, therefore, He is too close to me. How shall I sing His
praise and by which name I shall remember Him because He is
known by numerous names?
So far there is desire in the body, the man goes on recalling
Him. But when he absorbs in Him, the man becomes
unconscious and gets freedom from desires. Then there left no
body to sing.
The river makes noise till it falls into the sea. Like wise,
when the soul absorbs in the sea of God, all his hue and cry
ends.
So far a man has the desire of salvation; he sings in the
praise of God and listens to sermons. Wherever the greedy
man goes while keeping desires in his mind, he gets nothing.
But when a man, after giving up desires completely, meditates,
then he attains salvation.
If a man after renouncing all worldly desires meditates on
God only then he obtains the eternal bliss.
Ravidass says that the people of the world have been
describing the Almighty in different ways. But to achieve God,
is the ultimate truth only. 

SHABAD-67
(Raag Ramkali)
RAM JAN HOYUN NA BHAGAT KAHAYUN SEWA KARUN NA DASA. GUNI JOG JAGAY KACHU
NA JANNU TA THAI RAHUN UDASA || TEK|| BHAGAT HUYA TO CHARRAI BARRAHI JOG
KARUN JAG MAANAI. GUN HUYA TO GUNI JAN KAHAI GUNI AAP KO TAANAI. NA MAI MAMTA
MOH NA MOHIA YE SABH JAAHI BILAEI. DOJAKH BHISAT DOYU SUM KAR JANAI DOHUN
TARAK HAI BHAI. MAIN TAIN TAIN MAIN DEKH SAKAL JAG MAIN TAIN MOOL GAWAYI. JAB
MANN SAMTA IK IK MANN TABHI IK HAI BHAI. KRISAN KAREEM RAM HAR RAGHAV JAB LAG
IK NA PEKHA. BED KATEB KURAN PURANAN SAHAJ IK NEH DEKHA. JOI JOI KAR PUJAY SOI
SOI KAANCHI SEHAJ BHAV SAT HOYI. KEH RAVIDASS MAIN TAHAI KO PUJUN JAKAI GAAV
THAAV NEH KOI ||
O God, I am neither Your disciple nor Your worshipper.
Therefore, I have not served You. I have not become Your
servant.
I do not possess versatile qualities and knowledge of yoga.
Therefore, I am sad and dejected. If a man becomes Your
worshipper, then he will achieve fame being your worshipper.
If a man has talent, then people will call him a talented man.
The talented man will think that he has achieved excellence.
False affection and attachment have attracted me. Both
have gone far away from me. I consider hell and heaven equal.
Therefore, I have discarded both.
The human beings have forgotten God, due to pride,
arrogance and false affection. When the man after giving up
the false worldly affection, falls in true love with God only
then he attains oneness with Him.
Krishan, Karim, Ram, Hari, Raghav etc., are the different
names of the omnipresent God. A man cannot realise this fact
till he accepts that all human beings are equal. He may read
the Veds and Purans but he will attain spiritual calm only by
reciting the name of God.
The worship of any body, except God is untrue. A man
by performing true worship while sitting in ecstasy can achieve
the true God. Ravidass says that I worship only that God who
is not having a definite abode and name. 

SHABAD-68
(Raag Ramkali)
AB MERI BURRI RE BHAI TATAI CHARRI LOK BARRAI ||TEK|| ATT AHANKAR UR MEH SAT–
RAJJ-TAM TA MAIN REHAYO URJAYI. KARAM BAS PARYO KACHHU NA SUJHAI SWAMI NAM
BHULAI. HUM MANNO GUNI JOG SUN JUGTA HUM MAHA PURAKH RE BHAI. HUM MANNO
SOOR SAKAL BIDHI TIYAGI YEH MAMTA NAHI MITAI. HUM MANNAI AKHIL SHUN MANN
SODHYO SAB CHETAN SUDH PAYI. GAYAN DHAYAN SAB HI HUM JANYO BUJAI KAAUN SO
JAYI. HUM MANNAI PARAM PREM RAS JANYO NAU-BIDH BHAGAT KARAYI. SWANG DEKH
SABHI JAG DAIHKYO FIR AAPAN POR BANDHAYI. SAANG DHAI SAANCH NA JANYO LOGAN
YEH BHARMAYI. SYANG ROOP MAISHI JAB PAHRI BOLI TABH SUDH PAYI. AISYI BHAGAT
HAMARI SANTO PRABHUTA EH BARRAI. APAN ANAN AUR NEH MANAT TATAI MOOL GAWAYI.
BHANAI RAVIDASS UDAS TAHI TAI AB KUCH MOPAI KARYO NA JAYI. AAPO KHOYA BHAGAT
HOT HAI TAB RAHAI ANTAR URJAYI ||
When the pride of a man comes to an end, only then people
start admiring him. The man due to his ego gets involved in
the three characteristics of Maya, i.e. virtuous trait, passion
and evil. The man engaged in rituals cannot realise God. He
has forgotten the boat of God’s name which has to ferry him
across the sea of existence.
A man under the influence of pride thinks himself a
learned, talented, skillful yogi and superman. Due to pride, a
man considers himself brave, courageous and ascetic. His
mother’s affection does not cease.
A man thinks himself great and his inner-self pure. He
thinks that he has attained the self realisation. Due to pride he
thinks himself the most learned person. He does not understand
the God.
He is of the view that he knows about the ecstasy of love
and he has performed worship of nine types. This is all imitation.
People do not know the Ultimate Reality. They are engaged in
self-praise.
If a sheep adopts the appearance of a lion, then the sheep
will be recognised from her voice only.
O saints, such is your meditation. You consider others
inferior. By adopting this attitude, you have moved away from
the God, who is your base.
Ravidass says, after seeing such behaviour of the people,
I become sad. If a man after renouncing evil deeds, meditates
upon God, only then he can see the glimpse of God in his
inner-self. 

SHABAD-69
(Raag Ramkali)
BAHI RE! BHRAM BHAGAT SUJAN. JO LO SAANCH NAHI PECHAAN ||TEK|| BHRAM NACHAN
BHRAM GAAYAN BHRAM JAP TAP DAAN. BHRAM SEWA BHRAM PUJA BHRAM SO PECHAAN.
BHRAM KHAT KARAM SAKAL SAHINTA BHRAM GREH BAN JAAN. BHRAM KAR KAR KARAM
KIYO BHRAM KI YEH BAAN. BHRAM INDRI NIGRAH KIYA BHRAM GUFA MAIN BAAS. BHRAM
TAU LAU JANIYE KRE SUN KI AAS. BHRAM SHUDH SAREER JAU LAU BHRAM NAAV BINAAV.
BHRAM BHAN RAVIDASS TAU LAU JAU LAU CHAHAI THAV ||
O Brother! The world is an illusion. You can know this
fact only through meditation. Only truth can pierce the illusion.
Dancing is illusion, singing is illusion. Recitation,
meditation and to give alms, all are illusion. To perform service
and worship are illusion. Therefore, O brother, you should
identify the illusion.
To perform six types of rituals, all the methods and rules
described in the Veds and Shastars, and to go to forest after
abandoning the home, all these are illusion. All rituals
performed in the name of illusion are illusory and false.
To control or overcome the senses and take shelter in a
cave is illusion. When a man, while attaining the state of
spiritual calm, desires to reach the God only then he
understands the definition of illusion.
Without the true worship of God, to keep body pure is
also illusion. So far a man does not achieve the God till then
the illusion cannot be eradicated, says Ravidass, he may visit
all the places of worship. 

SHABAD-70
(Raag Ramkali)
JAYO TUM KAARAN KAISVAI ANTAR LIV LAAGI. EIK ANUPAM ANUBHAVI KIM HOYI BIBHAGI
||TEK|| EIK ABHIMANI CHATRIGA BICHRAT JAG MAAHI. JADAP JAL PURAN MAHI KAHUN
WA RUCH NAHI. JAISE KAAMI DEKH KAMINI HIRDAI SOOL UPJAYI. KOT VED BIDHI UCHRAI
BAAKI BITHA NA JAYI. JO JEH CHAHAI SO MILAI AARAT GAT HOYI. KAHAI RAVIDASS YEH GOP
NAHI JANAI SAB KOI ||
O God! I am totally absorbed in you. The experience of
your true devotion is unique which cannot be shared or
explained.
A sea bird- papiha, arrogant in love travels the whole world
in search of an extraordinary mythical rain drop, though the
whole world is full of water. But his inclination does not shift
to other drop of water. Like this the aptitude of your
worshipper, constantly, sticks to Your name, O God.
After seeing a woman, a lustful man feels thorn like pain.
Crores of physicians treat him with different methods but his
aptitude does not heal.
He, who loves God sincerely, can achieve Him. The
requirement is only that he should take refuge in Him. Ravidass
says that this is not a secret. Every one knows this truth. 

SHABAD-71
(Raag Ramkali)
AAYO HO AAYO DEV TUM SARNA. JAAN KIRPA KIJAI AAPNO JANA || TEK|| TRIBIDH JON
BAS, JAM DI AGAM TRAS TUMHRE BHAJAN BIN BHRAMAT FIRYO. MAMITA EH BIKHAI MADH
MAATO EH SUKH KABHU NA DUTUR TIRO. TUMHRAI NAAV BISAS CHADI HAI AAN KI AAS
SANSAR DHRAM MERE MANN NA DHEEJAI. RAVIDASS DASS KI SEWA MAAN HO DEVADHIDEV
PATIT PAWAN NAAM PRAGAT KIJAI ||
I have come to take refuge in You, O God of the deities.
Kindly shower your blessings on me.
O God! Without reciting Your name, the man is suffering
in the cycle of birth and death. The man is engrossed in pride,
sexual desires and affection because he does not worship You.
Therefore, he cannot control the five sins. I have renounced
all the desires except reciting Your name, because I am not
happy in performing worldly deeds.
Ravidass humbly prays to the divine power to accept him
in His service and manifest His Godhood attribute, the
‘Redeemer of sinners’. 

SHABAD-72
(Raag Ramkali)
BHAI RE RAM KAHAN HAI MOH BATAVO. SAT RAM TA KAI NIKAT NA AAVO ||TEK|| RAM
KEHAT SAB JAGAT BHULANA. SO YAHU RAM NA HOYI. KARAM AKARAM KARUNAMAI KESO.
KARTA NAAV SU KOYI. JA RAMHAI SAB JAG JANAI. BHRAM BHULAU RE BHAI. AAP AAP THAI
KOI NA JANAI. KAHAI KAUN SO JAYI. SAT TAN LOBH PARAS JEEA TAN MANN. GUN PARSAT
NAHI JAAYI. ALIKH NAAM JA KAO THOR NA KATHU. KAYO NA KAHOU SAMUJAYI. BHANAI
RAVIDASS UDAAS TAHI TAI. KARTA KAU HAI BHAI. KEWAL KARTA EIK SAHI KAR. SAT RAM
TIHI THAHI ||
O brother! Tell me where is God? Whose name you all
recite! You do not come nearer to that true God, whose abode
is the whole universe.
You are reciting Ram… Ram… but you have forgotten
the true and omnipresent God. The name of Ram you recite is
not the omnipresent God. The omnipresent God is the Creator.
He is kind also.
The whole world knows that God but O brother, as you
have engaged yourself in illusion and false rituals, therefore,
you have forgotten that God. No body could himself know
that Almighty but who will tell you this truth.
That God is free from the three characteristics of Maya.
He does not involve himself in virtuous trait, emotions and
evils. He is not greedy also. None can explain His qualities. He
is omnipresent and the whole universe is His abode. Why do
you not understand this, O brother?
Ravidass says while seeing this condition of the world I
become sad. O brother! We should think over it who is our
Creator. Our creator is only one and He is omnipresent. 

SHABAD-73
(Raag Ramkali)
AISO KUCHU ANUBHAO KEHAT NA AAVAI. SAHIB MILAI TO KO BIGRAVAI ||TEK|| SAB MAIN
HAR HAI HAR MAIN SABH HAI HAR AAPNO JIN JANA. SAAKHI NAHI AUR KOI DUSAR JANANHAR
SAYANA. BAJIGAR SO RACH RAHIYE BAAJI KA MARAM NA JANA. BAAJI JHOOTH SANCH
BAJIGAR JANA MANN PATIYANA. MANN THIR HOYI TO KOI NA SUJAI JANAI JANANHARA.
KAHAI RAVIDASS BIMAL VIVEK SUKH SEHAJ SARUP SABHARA ||
The experience of supreme-bliss cannot be explained.
When a man achieves God, then no body can separate him
from the Almighty.
Every soul is the abode of God and the abode of every
soul is God. Only that person knows this secret, who has
realised the God. There is no one parallel to God. Who knows
the God, is supreme in the world.
On watching the acrobatic skill, performed by an acrobat,
a man gets absorbed in it, but he does not know the secret of
acrobatic skill. Like this, the God using His acrobatic skill has
created this world which is untrue but the God is true. The
man, who realises that the world is illusion and only God is
true, only that man absorbs in God.
The man, whose mind acquires firmness in God, and then
he does not think about other things. Ravidass says that I have
adopted the God which is pure, knowledgeable and ocean of
happiness. I worship such a God. 

SHABAD-74
(Raag Ramkali)
PANDAT! AKHIL KHILAI NAHI KA KEH GAAYUN KOI NA KAHAI SAMUJHAYI. ABRAN BARAN
ROOP NAHI JA KAI SO KAHAN LAYO LAYI SAMAYI ||TEK|| CHAND SOOR NEH RAAT DIVAS
NEH DHARAN AAKAS NA BHAI. KARAM AKARAM NHAI SUBH ASUBH NAHI KA KEH DEHU
BADAYI. SEET NA USAN VAAYU NAHI SARVAT KAAM KUTIL NAHI HOYI. JOG NA BHOG ROG
NAHI JA KAI KAHO NAAV SAT SOYI. NIRANJAN NIRAKAR NIRLAIPAI NIRBIKAR NIRASI. KAAM
KUTILTA TA HI KEH GAVAI HAR HAR AAVAI HAANSI. GAGAN DHOOR DHOOP NEH JA KAI
PAWAN POOR NAHI PANI. GUN BIGUN KAHIYAT NAHI JA KAI KAHO TUM BAAT SAYANI. YAHI
SAUN TUM JOG KEHAT HAU JAB LAG AAS KI PASSI. CHHUTAI TABHI JAB MILAI EIK HI BHNAI
RAVIDASS UDASI ||
O Pandit! No body reveals to me the mystery of God.
You tell me, under which name, I shall worship Him, who is
casteless, colourless & formless. The abode of omnipresent
God is the whole universe.
The God is neither the moon and the sun nor day and
night. He is neither earth nor sky. He is neither auspicious nor
inauspicious, neither good nor bad. Let me know by which
word I shall praise Him.
In the inaccessible land, there is neither winter nor
summer, neither wind nor water and nor evil deeds. Who is
above yog, enjoyment and diseases? His name is true.
It is difficult to prepare a sketch of his holy face. But He
is pure. He is shapeless, unattached, faultless, and sinless,
without any support and self existent. The lusty and deceitful
persons sing His praise by saying Him lusty, sexy and deceitful.
I laugh at the ignorance of those people.
He cannot be called sky, land, sunshine, wind or water.
The God is with attributes and also without attributes. Ravidass
says, O Pandit, you are surrounded by desires completely. You
have given the name of yoga to your false rituals. Therefore,
you cannot conceive the appearance of God. A man, after
getting himself liberated from false rituals shall recite the name
of one God. 

SHABAD-75
(Raag Ramkali)
NARHAR CHANCHAL HAI MAT MORI KAISE BHAGAT KARU MAIN TORI ||TEK|| TU MOHAI
DEKHAI MAIN TOHAI DEKHU PREET PARASPAR HOYI. TU MOHAI DEKHAI HAYO TOH NA
DEKHU EHU MATT SABH BUDH KHOYI. SAB GHAT ANTAR RAMAS NIRANTAR MAIN DEKHAT
HOON NAHI JANA. GUN SAB TOR MOR AB AUGUN KRIT UPKAR NA MAANA. MAIN TO TOR
MORI ASAMJHIS KAISE KAR NISTARA. KEH RAVIDASS MADHO KARUNAMAY JAI JAI JAGAT
ADHARA ||
O God! My mind is not stable, therefore, how can I
worship you?
Now, I have discarded the enthusiastic mood, therefore, I
am feeling that You have been watching and blessing me. I am
also having glimpses of Your bright and glowing face. Now
we are really tied in a reciprocal attachment.
I have given up this feeling that You are seeing me and I
cannot see Your face.
O God, You have been residing in each and every person
continuously. I cannot understand this truth though I know
this fact. O God! You are possessor of all virtues where as I
am full of faults because I cannot know Your benefaction.
O God! I am unable to understand Your qualities,
therefore, how can I get salvation?
Ravidass says, O God! You are omnipresent, kind-hearted,
benefactor of the world. Only by singing songs in your praise,
people can achieve salvation. 

SHABAD-76
(Raag Ramkali)
TAB RAM NAAM KEH GAVAIGA. RARANKAR RAHIT SABHHIN MAIN ANTAR MEL MILAVAIGA
|| TEK|| LOHA KANCHAN SUM KAR DAIKHAI BHAID ABHAID SAMAVAIGA. JO SUKH HOVAI
PARAS KAI PARSAI SO SUKH VA KO AVAIGA. GUR PARSAD BHYI ANUBHY MATT BISH AMRIT
SUM DHYAVAIGA. KAHAI RAVIDASS MAIT AAPA PAR TAB VA THAUREH PAVAIGA ||
When a worshipper will sing the praise of God with full
concentration of mind, then he will find the omnipresent God
in him.
When a man does not see any difference between iron
and gold only then he will be absorbed in the God after knowing
the mystery.
The comfort which the iron realise after getting a touch
of the philosopher’s stone, i.e. of becoming gold like this the
man gets the supreme bliss after absorbing in the God, which
cannot be explained.
By the grace of Guru the mind of the man becomes
fearless. The poison and nectar become equal for him.
Ravidass says when a man gets liberated after relinquishing
his ego only then he gets a place in the court of God. 

SHABAD-77
(Raag Ramkali)
SANTO ANIN BHAGAT YEH NAHI. JAB LAG SAT- RAJ-TAM TEENO GUN BIAPAT HAI YA MAHI
||TEK|| SOYI AAN ANTAR KARAI HAR SO APMARAG KO AANAI. KAAM KRODH MADH LOBH
MOH KI PAL PAL PUJA THANAI. SAKIT SANEH EISHT ANG LAAVAI ASTHAL ASTHAL KHELAI.
JO KUCH MILAI AAN AKHAT JIYO SUT DARA SIR MELAI. HARIJAN HAR BINU AUR NA JANAI
TAJAI AAN SABH TYAGI. KEH RAVIDASS SOYI JAN NIRMAL NISDIN NIJ ANURAGI ||
O saints! This is not a unique meditation. So far the three
characteristics of Maya that determine the nature of beings
and things such as passion, virtuous trait and evil of possessing
undesirable property, are flourishing in your bodies till then
you cannot perform unique meditation.
The Maya has been pushing the man away from God and
misleading him from the right path. Therefore the man is
engaged in worshipping emotional pleasure, anger, pride, greed
and attachment.
The Maya has been misguiding the man from right path
and urging him to go astray and wander hither and thither. The
worldly wealth, which a man earns, except the name of God,
will be utilised by his sons and wife. Only the name of God
will accompany him during his last journey.
A devotee does not absorb himself in the worldly wealth
except the name of God. Ravidass says, only that person is
pure and pious who has been reciting the name of God, day
and night. 

SHABAD-78
BHAGTI AISI SUNHU RE BHAI. AAYI BHAGAT TAYO GAYI BARRAYI || TEK|| KAHAN BHAYO
NAACHAI AUR GAAYAI KAHAN BHAIYO TAP KEENAI. KAHAN BHAYO JO CHARAN PAKHARAI
JAU LO TAT NAHI CHEENAIN. KAHAN BHAYO JAI MUNDH MUNDAYO BAHU TIRATH BRAT
KINAI. SWAMI DAS BHAGAT AUR SEWAK KAHU PARAM TAT NAHI CHEENAIN. KAHAI
‘RAVIDASS’ TERI BHAGAT DOOR HAI BHAG BARRAI SO PAVAI. TAJJ ABHIMAAN MAIT AAPA
PAR PIPLAK HAIV CHUN KHAVAI ||
O brother! The meditation of God is such a pious
achievement, which destroys the arrogance.
You will not gain anything by holding ostentation, dancing,
singing performing austerities, or washing the feet of deities.
All such actions are useless because you do not know the
supreme Truth.
After shaving off his head’s hair, a person may visit all
the holy places as a pilgrim and observe fast there, but he
cannot achieve the God by doing this. It is fruitless to perform
Master-servant and Guru-disciple worship till a man does not
realise the supreme Truth.
Ravidass says, O God! Your worship is too difficult and
too far. Only that man, on whom You shower good luck and
blessings, can meditate upon You. As an ant picks up sugar
pieces from the sand by giving up her false pride, like this the
man who meditates on God by surrendering his ego, attains
the eternal bliss. 

SHABAD-79
(Raag Ramkali)
AB KUCH MARAM BICHARA HO HAR. AAD AUNT AUSAAN RAM BIN KOI NA KARAI NISTARA
HO HAR ||TEK|| JAL TAI PANK PANK TAI AMRIT JAL JALHAI SUDH HOYE JAISAI. AISAI BHARAM
KARAM JEEA BANDHIO CHHUTAI TUM BIN KAISE HO HAR. JAP TAP BIDHI NISHAID NAAM
KARUNAMAI PAP PUN DOYUO MAYA. AISE MOHIT MANN GAT BIMUKH DHAN JANAM JANAM
DAHKAYA HO HAR. TARRAN CHHAIDAN TRACHAN KHAIDAN BAHU BIDH KAR LE UPAI.
LUNKHARRI SANJOG BINA JAISAI KANIK KALANK NA JAYI HO HAR. KEH RAVIDASS UDAS
TAHI TAIN KAHA UPAAI AB KEEJAI. BHAI BURRAT BHAIBHEET BHAGAT JAN KAR AVALLBAN
DEEJAI HO HAR ||
O God! Now I have, up to some extent, understood the
reality. God Himself pervades all the ages. He was in the
beginning of the universe. He was present in the medieval age
and will remain present in the end also. There is no one else to
grant salvation to the human beings.
There is mud in the water and the lotus flower, which
contains nectar, blossoms in the mud. The soul is tightly tied
to the deed and illusion theory. Therefore, without Your kind
blessings, O God, the soul cannot attain liberation.
Recitation, meditation, forbidden sin-deed and virtue, O
God, are different names of Maya. Due to these false rituals,
the soul remains engaged in transmigration.
As the black substance in gold cannot be removed by
putting it into the furnace or by hammering it, but it can only
be removed with the help of ammonium chloride. Like this
the soul does not get salvation by performing various types of
ascetic methods, but he can attain salvation with the blessing
of the Almighty.
Ravidass says I am sad, therefore, I request you O God to
do some remedial action for my emancipation. The frightened
soul is drowning in the ocean of existence. O God, You please
help the soul to swim across the ocean of existence. 

SHABAD-80
(Raag Ramkali)
NARHAR PRAGTAS NA HO PRAGTAS NA HO. DEENA NATH DAYAL || TEK|| JANMAT HI TE HO
BIGRAN. AB KACHHU BUHAT BOHAR SIYAN. PARIWAR BIMUKH MOH LAAG. KACHU SAMUJ
PARAT NEH JAN. YEH BHAU BIDES KAL KAAL. HUM AAN PARYO JAMJAL. KABHUK TOR
BHROS. JO MAIN NA KAHUN TO MOR DOS. AS KAHIYAT HOON MAIN AAJAN. AHO PARBHU
TUM SARVGAY SAYAN. SUT SEWAK SADA ASOCH. THAKUR PITHI SAB SOCH. RAVIDASS
BINVAI KAR JOR. AHO SUAMI TUM MOH NA CHOR. SUTO PURBALA AKRAM MOR. BAL
JAOUN KAROU NIJ KOR ||
O God! Why do not you manifest? Why do not You reveal
Your identity and behold? O God! Every soul departs from
the God, after taking birth in this world. So am I.
I am totally spoiled and do not know what to do? The
members of my family have become estranged.
Due to this reason, I have become a foreigner who is
residing in the age of Kalyug. Therefore, I feel trapped in the
net of Yam, the god of death. I have full faith in you, but I do
not recite your holy name, that is my fault.
I am doing all this due to ignorance. O God, you know
every thing. As a father takes care of his son and the Guru of
his disciple, like this the God takes care of His devotee.
With folding hands Ravidass prays, O God! Do not take
into account my faults and by ignoring my improper actions,
please bless me. Due to my evil sins committed in the
previous birth, I am enduring the pang of separation. O
God, please do not pay attention towards my faults but
shower Your pious blessings on me so that I may repeat
Your name and worship You. 

SHABAD-81
(Raag Ramkali)
JIYO TUM KARAN KESWAI LALACH JIV LAGA. NIKAT NATH PRAPAT NAHI MAT MANNDH
ABHAGA ||TEK|| SAGAR SALIL SARODIKA JAL THAL ADHIKAYE. SWATI BUNDH KI AAS HAI
PIYO PIYAS NA JAYI. JO RE SANEHI CHAHIYEH CHITWAT HO DOORI. PANGUL PHAL NA
PAHUNCHHI KACHU SADH NA PURI. KAHAI RAVIDASS AKATH KATHA UPNISHAD SUNIJAI.
JAS TU TAS TU HI KAS UPMA DIJAI ||
The man gets precious birth in order to achieve the God,
but he has implicated himself in the false temptation of wealth.
Due to this reason, the unlucky man cannot achieve the God,
who is residing in him.
There are many sources of water such as, the ocean, lakes,
tanks etc. but the rain-bird, papiha, remains occupied in search
of the mythical rain drop; because no other drop of water can
quench the thirst of that bird.
O God! If you want I may see you by maintaining some
distance, then let me know, how a crippled man can achieve
the fruit in order to materialise his hope.
A man may listen to so many Upnishads but the story of
the God will remain unexplained.
Therefore, why shall I say more regarding ineffable?
Ravidass says, O God! You are your own parallel. There is no
one else with whom I can compare you. 

SHABAD 82
(Raag Ramkali)
GOVINDAI BHOJAL BIADH APARA. TA TAI KACHU SUJHAT WAR NA PARA ||TEK|| AGAM
GREAH DOOR DURANTAR BOL BHROS DEJAI. TERI BHAGAT PROHAN SANT AROHAN MOH
CHARRAI KIN LEEJAI. LOH KI NAAV PAKHANAN BOJHI SUKIRIT BHAV BIHINA. LOBH TARANG
MOH BHYO GALAU MANN MEEN BAYO JAN LINA. TUM DINA NATH DAYAL DAMODAR KENAI
HET BILAMB KEJAI. RAVIDASS DAS SANT CHARAN KI MOH AVLABHAN DEEJAI ||
O God! The ocean of world is full of sufferings. I do not
know how to swim across it. Your abode is too far. It is very
difficult to reach there. O God! Say few words to me so that I
may get solace.
Your worship is the only boat which can take a man across
the sea of existence. But only saints can board this boat. O
God! Why do you not allow me to board the boat of your
worship?
My boat is made of iron and greed. Therefore, it is very
heavy. More over I have loaded it with the idols of stone.
The boat of my body has, already been decayed by the
high tides of greediness and affection. The fish of my mind
has already been entrapped in the angle of greed.
O Compassionate of the poor! O Cherisher of the meek!!
Why are you delaying? Please listen to my request. Ravidass
says, I have taken refuge in the feet of saints, now O god!
Help me. 

SHABAD 83
(Raag Ramkali)
AAGAY MANDA HAVAI RAHYA PARKIRAT NA JAYI. KUKAR CHOKI CHODIYEH PHIRI BAHAI SU
BHAI ||TEK|| SURSRI MAIN JU SURA PARYO KO KARAI NA BICHAR. RAM NAM HIRDAI BASAI
SAB SUKH NIDH SAR. KAHAI RAVIDASS SUN KESVAI ANTHAI KARAN BICHAR. TOOMHARI
BHAGAT KAI KAARANAI PHIR HAVAI HO CHAMAR ||
Ravidass says, before starting the recitation of God’s name,
I have already earned evils, thus suffered a lot. But the habitual
behaviour of man does not change.
After giving a bath, if a dog made to sit in a seat, but
according to its natural habit, the dog will come down and
prefer to sit on the ground. Such is the character of the man.
If some alcohol is poured in the water of the river Ganges,
it will not affect the purity of the water and becomes the
inseparable part of the water of the Ganges. No one will think
that the pure water of the Ganges has become impure.
If the heart of the man becomes the abode of the holy
name of God, then the treasure of happiness and wealth will
become part of that man.
Ravidass prays to God, listen to my request and think
over it wholeheartedly and consciously.
Allow me to take birth in the cobbler’s family again and
again so that after taking birth in the so-called low-caste, I
may meditate on you in every birth, says Ravidass. 

SHABAD-84
(Raag Ramkali-Choupada)
DHRIG DHRIG JEEVAN RAJAI RAM BINA ||TEK|| DEH NAIN BINU, CHAND RAIN BIN, JIOUN
MEENA GAHAR JALAI BINA. HASTI SUND BINU, PANKHI PANKH BINU, JAISOYI MANDIR
DEEP BINA. JAISAI BRAHMANN VED VIHUNA, TAISO PRANI TUJH NAAM BINA. BAISWA,
KUN SUT KAKAU KAHIYE, TAISO BHAGAT JAN RAM BINA. MANNTAR SURAT BINU, NARI
KANT BINU, JAISO DHARATI INDER BINA. JIOUN BRISHA FALAH VIHUNA, TIYO PRANI TUJH
PREM BINA. KAM KRODH HANKAR NIBARYO, TRISHNA TIAGU SANT JANA. KEH RAVIDASS
BHAI SITAL KAYAN, JIYON HAUN LAGO GUR CHARNA ||
The life of a human being is a curse without reciting the
name of God.
The body without eyes, the moon without night, fish
without deepwater, elephant without trunk, bird without
wings, temple without lamp of eternal light, are useless.
As a Brahman without the knowledge of Veds, is useless
like this the birth of a person is meaningless without
worshipping the name of God.
As the son of a prostitute cannot be given the name of
his father, likewise a devotee cannot be given any name without
God’s devotion.
As the mystic formula or holy hymns are futile without
consciousness and awareness, a woman without husband, earth
without rain, tree without fruit are incomplete like this man is
incomplete without the love of God.
Ravidass advises the saints and brothers to renounce
passion, anger, pride and desires.
Ravidass says, as soon as a man touches the feet of true
Guru, his body becomes pure and pious. 

SHABAD-85
(Raag Maru)
AISI LAL TUJH BIN KAUN KARAI. GARIB NIVAJ GUSIA MERA MATHAI CHHATAR DHARAI.
||RAHAAO|| JA KI CHHOT JAGAT KAO LAGAI TA PAR TUHI DHARAI. NICHAH UCH KARAI
MERA GOBIND KAHU TE NA DARAI. NAMDEV KABIR TILOCHAN SADHNA SAIN TARAI. KAHI
RAVIDASS SUNHU RE SANTAHU HAR JIO TE SABHAI SARAI ||
O God! O my Jewel God!! Without you, who can do such
a favour to me.
Cherisher of the poor, Lord of the earth, you have put
over my forehead a canopy of spiritual sovereignty.
You do favour to him, whose touch defiles the world. My
fearless God has raised my status from low to high caste.
Namdev, Kabir, Trilochan, Sadhna and Sain were
emancipated. Ravidass says, listen to me, O Saints! The God
is powerful to do anything. 

SHABAD-86
(Raag Maru)
SUKH SAGAR SURITAR CHINTAMAN KAMDHEN BAS JA KE RE. CHAR PADARATH ASAT MAHA
SIDH NAV NIDH KAR TAL TA KAI. HAR HAR HAR NA JAPAS RASNA. AVAR SABH CHHAD BACHAN
RACHNA || RAHAAO || NANA KHIAN PURAN BED BIDH CHAUTIS ACHHAR MAHI. BIAS
BICHAR KAHIO PARMARATH RAM NAAM SAR NAHI. SAHJ SAMADH UPADH RAHAT HOE
BADE BHAG LIV LAGI. KAHI RAVIDASS UDAS DAS MAT JANAM MARAN BHAI BHAGI ||
God is an ocean of pleasure. In His possession are the
miraculous tree, gem and cow.
The four advantages, eighteen miraculous powers and nine
treasures are in the palm of His hand.
Why do you not repeat the name of God with your tongue
and abandon all other device of words?
The epic poems, the Purans and Veds of Brahma, all are
composed out of thirty-four letters.
The sage Ved Vyas has expressed his conviction that there
is no parallel to the name of God.
Those are very fortunate who perform meditation and fix
their attention upon God. They shall be freed from their
troubles afterwards.
The fear of death and birth flees from him. Ravidass says my
mind has adopted indifferent attitude towards the worldly affairs.

SHABAD-87
(Raag Maru - Choupada)
PIYA RAM RAS PIYA RE ||TEK|| BHAR BHAR DEVAI SURAT KALALI, DARYA DARYA PINA RE.
PIWATT PIWATU AAPA JAG BHULA, HAR RAS MAH BORANA RE. DAR GHAR VISAR GAYO
RAVIDASSA, UNMANN SADH MATWARI RE. PAL PAL PREM PIALA CHALAI, CHUTAI NAHI
KHUMARI RE ||
I have taken the elixir of God’s name. The Distiller is
offering me the cups of this nectar and I am drinking the full
flowing river of elixir.
By consuming such nectar, I am absorbed in myself and
forgotten the world. After consuming such elixir, a man engages
himself fully in reciting the name of God.
Ravidass says, after drinking such nectar, I became so
absorbed in the name of God that I lost the way to my home.
Such pegs are being served continuously. As a result of
this, the cups of ecstasy do not come to an end. 

SHABAD-88
(Raag Maru - Choupada)
MANN MORA MAYA MAIN LAPTANO ||TEK|| BISASAKAT RAHYO NISVISAR, AJ HOON NEH
AGHANO. KAAMI KUTIL LABAAR KUCHALI, SAMJHAI NAHI SAMUJANO. SAT SANGAT PAL
NAHI KINAHI, MANN MURAKH BHU GARVANO. SOT KHAT DIN RAIN BITAI, TAH MAIN
RASANA SUKH MANNO. MAYA MEH HIL MIL RAHYO, PHOKAT SATAI JANAM GAWANO. KEH
RAVIDASS KACHU CHAIT BABRAI RAM NAM BIN NEH UBRANO ||
My mind is fully engrossed in the evil deeds. Though, the
mind remains absorbed in sinful thoughts, day and night, even
then it has not yet tired.
The lustful mind has deviated from the right path. I try to
make it understand, but the mind does not accept my advice.
The mind does not stick to congregation, rather feel proud by
abstaining. The mind is spending day and night in eating and
sleeping and feels comfort in such things.
As the mind remains engrossed in evil deeds, therefore,
the mind is wasting its life.
Ravidass asks his mind to think seriously over it because
doing this the mind cannot cross the ocean of existence. 

SHABAD-89
(Raag Maru - Choupada)
BEET AAYU BHAJAN NAHI KINA ||TEK|| SAIT BHIYO TAN THAR THAR KAMPAI, HAR SIMRAN
NAHI KINA. SAT SANGAT NEH GUR PADH SAIYU,PRABH KIRAT NEH GAAYI. NEH MANN RAMYO
PRABH CHARNAN MEH, TAN SIYUN PIRIT DRRAYI. KEH RAVIDASS CHALAN KI BARIYA, KOU
NA HOAI SAHAII ||
O man! Your life-span is reducing day by day but you
have not, so far, started to sing songs in the praise of God.
Your hair have turned grey and your body started trembling, it
shows that the old age has approached you. But you have
neither meditated upon God’s name nor derived any benefit
from the company of saints.
You have not so far sung the songs in praise of Almighty.
During your life-span you have been spending time in pleasures
and to look after your body. Your mind has not absorbed in
the feet of God so far.
Ravidass says when your last time will come, then no other
divine power, except God, will provide you support. 

SHABAD-90
(Raag Maru - Choupada)
PRABHU JI TUM AUGUN BAKHASHANHAR. HOUN BAHU NEECH UDHRO PATKI, MURAKH
NIPAT GAWANR ||TEK|| MO SUM PATIT ADHAM NAHI KOYUN, KHEEN DUKHI VISIAR. NAM
SUNHI NARAK BHAJAI HAIV, TUM BIN KAWAN HAMAR. PATIT PAWAN BIRRAD TIHARO,
AAYE PAROU TOHE DWAR. KEH RAVIDASS EHU MANN AASA, NIJ KAR LEHU UBHAR ||
O God! You are the pardoner of demerits and faults. I am
a mean, known sinner, foolish and hypocrite.
There is no other sinner or lowly born. I have become
very feeble, weak and sufferer. Therefore, I remain in offended
mood like a poisonous snake.
Your holy name is pious and powerful. After listening to
Your name the hell goes far away from the man. O God! Who
is our own in this world than Your holy name?
You are called Redeemer of sinners; therefore, I have come
at Your doorsteps.
Ravidass says, O God! I have come to You with the hope,
that You will liberate me from all types of bondages and provide
me salvation. 

SHABAD-91
(Raag Kedara)
KHAT KARAM KUL SANJUGAT HAI HAR BHAGAT HIRDAI NAHI. CHARNARBIND NA KATHA
BHAVAI SUPACH TUL SAMAN. RE CHIT CHET CHET ACHET. KAHE NA BALMIKAHI DEKH. KIS
JAT TE KIH PADEH AMRIO RAM BHAGAT BISEKH. || RAHAAO || SUAN SATAR AJAT SABH TE
KRISAN LAVAI HET. LOG BAPURA KIA SARAHAI TIN LOK PARVES. AJAMAL PINGULA LUBHAT
KUNCHAR GAE HAR KAI PAS. AISE DURMAT NISTARE TU KIO NA TAREH RAVIDASS ||
A man performs the six good acts and he belongs to a
high caste family, if he does not worship God and he does
not love the lotus feet of the Master, then he is equal to a
Chandaal.
O thoughtless man, think upon God in your heart. Why
do not you look at Balmik? From a low caste, what a high
position he has attained by his special devotion to God. Though
Balmik belongs to the lowest caste but due to his devotion to
God, he was loved by the God.
How can poor mortals praise God? His praise extends to
the three worlds.
Ajamal, the courtesan, Lodiya, the huntsman and the
elephant were accepted in the God’s court as a result of their
remembering the God’s name. If such degraded beings were
saved, then why you should not be saved, O Ravidass! 

SHABAD-92
(Raag Kedara)
RE MANN RAM NAM SAMBHAR. MAYA KAI BHRAM KAHA BHULAYON JAHIGAI KAR JHAR
||TEK|| DEKH DHAU EHA KAUN TERO SAGA SUT NEH SAR. TOR TANG SABH DOOR KARIHAI
DAIHINGAI TAN JAR. PRAN GAYE KAHO KAUN TERA DEKH SOCH BICHAR. BOHAR YEH KAL
KAAL MAHI JEET BHAVAI HAAR. YEH MAYA SAB THOTHARI RE BHAGAT KO PRITPAR. KEH
RAVIDASS SAT BACHAN GUR KAI SO NA JIA TAI BISAR ||
O my mind! You do not recite the name of God, because
you have been entrapped by Maya, the worldly attachment, in
its dragnet. One day you have to leave this world and you will
go empty-handed.
You observe carefully, who is your in this world. Your
own son will not care for you. After breaking all relations with
you, all your relatives and friends, will set your body on fire.
You think who will be your after death? During this age
of Kalyug, your soul will remain busy in the cycle of birth,
death and rebirth i.e. transmigration of soul. Now the game is
in your hand. By accepting my advice you can win the game
and by not accepting it you can lose the game.
Ravidass says the materialistic world is illusion which
is hollow and absurd. Therefore, according to the true
sermon of my Guru, you start reciting the name of God.
This is the prime wealth which will accompany you during
your last journey. 

SHABAD-93
(Raag Kedara)
HOU BANJARYO RAM KO HAR JU KO TANDO LADHO JAYE RE. RAM NAM DHAN PAYEO TA TE
SEHAJ KAR BIYOPAR RE ||TEK|| AOUGHAT GHAT GHANO GHANA RE NIRGUN BAIL HAMAR
RE. RAMNAM HUM LADIYO TATHAI VISH LADIYO SANSAR RE. ANTEH DHAN DHARIYO RE
ANTEH DHUDHAN JAYE RE. ANAT KO DHARYO NA PAYIAH TATHAI CHALIYEA MOOL GAMAYI
RE. RAIN GAVAYI SOYI KAR DIVAS GAVAYO KHAYE RE. HIRA YEH TAN PAYE KAR KORRI BADLAI
JAYE RE. SADHU SANGAT PUNJI BHAYI RE BASUT LAYI NIRMOL RE. SEHJAI BALDIYA LAD KAR
CHAHU DIS TANDO MAIL RE. JAISA RANG KUSAMBH KA TAISA YAHU SANSAR RE. RAMIYA
RANG MAJITH KA BHANAI RAVIDASS BICHAR RE ||
I am a merchant of God’s name. My vehicle is fully loaded
with the name of God and I am ready to move. I have
discovered the wealth of God’s name and calmly engaged in
the trade of God’s name.
The ascent of the world is very steep and thus very difficult
and my ox is very feeble. But I have loaded my cart with the
precious wealth of God’s name whereas the people of the world
have loaded their carts with poison.
The people of this world have stocked their wealth
somewhere else and searching the same at some other place. It
is true that the wealth placed at one particular place cannot be
located at another place. Such men cannot earn a single penny
from such investment but will also lose their principle capital
too. The man has acquired a gem like body and it is going
waste like a small sea-shell.
O brother! The company of saints is a very valuable asset.
After loading the body like an ox, with the God’s name, a man
can engage himself in the business of God’s name and setup
centres in all directions.
You recording angels, who know this world and the next,
write whatever nonsense you can write about me, I care not for
your writings. Yamraj, the god of death will not dare to touch
me, since I have cast away all entanglements of worldly affairs.
This world is like a fleeting colour of safflower. But the
colour of my God is the permanent dye of madder, says the
tanner Ravidass. 

SHABAD-94
(Raag Kedara)
PREET SUDHAMANN AAV. TEJ SAROOPI SAKAL SIROMANN ALAKH NIRANJAN RAV ||TEK||
PEEV SANG PREM KABHUN NEH PAYO KARNI KAVAN BISARI. CHAK KO DHIAN DADH SUT
SOUN HOT HAI YO TUM TAI MAIN NIARI. BHOR BHAYON MOH EIK TAK JOWAT TALPHAL RAJNI
JAYI. PEEV BIN SAIJAYI KA SUKH SOU BIRAH BITHA TAN KHAYI. MET DUHAG SUHAGIN KEEJAI
APNAI ANG LAGAYI. KAHAI RAVIDASS PRABHU TUMRAI BICHOHAI EIK PALAK JUG JAYI ||
O God! You are the nectar of love. You are welcome.
Your face is the most glittering one. You are premier and
supreme of all. Your appearance is invisible. You are flawless,
and pure. I am so ill fated that I cannot love the God. O God!
You have discarded me for which reason? As the Chakor
constantly loves moon, like this I am in love with you.
O God! I am spending the whole life while suffering pang
of separation from you.
How can I take a sound sleep on the rosy bed without my
beloved that is the God? I am under going pain due to His
separation.
I am an ignored and deserted woman. O God! Provide me
the status of a married woman with your miraculous touch.
Ravidass says, O God! While enduring your separation,
one moment of my life is being spent like an age. 

SHABAD-95
(Raag Bhairo)
BIN DEKHE UPJAI NAHI AASA. JO DISAI SO HOE BINAASA. BARAN SAHIT JO JAPAI NAAM. SO
JOGI KEVAL NIHKAAM. PARCHAI RAM RAVAI JAO KOI. PARAS PARSAI DUBIDHA NA HOI.
||RAHAAO|| SO MUN MAN KI DUBIDHA KHAE. BIN DUARE TARAI LOK SAMAE. MAN KA
SUBHAO SABH KOI KARAI KARTA HOE SO ANBHAI RAHAI. PHAL KARAN PHULI BANRAE.
PHAL LAGA TAB PHOOL BILAE. GYANAI KARAN KARAM ABHIAAS. GYAN BHAIA TAH KARMAH
NAAS. GHARIT KARAN DADH MATHAI SAIAN. JIVAT MUKAT SADA NIRBAN. KAHI RAVIDASS
PARAM BAIRAG. RIDAI RAM KI NA JAPAS ABHAG ||
Without beholding God, there is no hope. Every thing
that we see is perishable.
He who repeats God’s name with due praise, he is the
only Yogi free from desires.
If anyone engages himself in repeating the God’s name
and God, the philosopher’s stone touches him; his duality shall
no longer remain.
He who destroys the duality of his mind is a Muni. He
shall be absorbed in God, who resides in the three worlds.
Everybody acts according to his natural inclinations. It is
only, the creator. Who abides without fear?
Vegetables blossom to produce fruit. When the fruit
appears, the blossoms decay.
For the sake of the divine knowledge men practise
religious ceremonies. When divine knowledge is obtained, then
religious ceremonies are not performed.
To make butter the knowing women churn curd. But those
who strive for divine knowledge obtain deliverance while alive
and are ever at rest.
Ravidass says, having embraced supreme contempt for the
world, why you do not repeat the name of God, O unlucky man? 

SHABAD-96
(Raag Bhairo)
AISA DHIYAN DHARO BANWARI. MANN PAWAN DHIRRI SUKHMANN NARRI ||TEK|| SOI
JAP JAPO JO BAHUR NA JAPNA. SOI TAP TAPO JO BOHUR NA TAPNA. SOI GURU KAROUN JO
BOHAR NA KARNA. AISI MAROUN JO BOHAR NA MARNA. ULTI GANG JAMUN MAI LAYAVO.
BINHI JAL MAJAN HAIV AAVO. LOCHAN BHAR BHAR BIYAMB NIHARO. JOT BICHAR NA AUR
BICHARO. PIND PRAI JEEV JIS GHAR JATA. SHABAD ATEET ANAHAD RATA. JA PAR KIRPA SOI
BHAL JANAI. GANGO SAAKAR KAHAN BAKHANAI. SUN MANDAL MAIN TERA BASA. TATHAI
JAAV MAI RAHO UDASA. KEH RAVIDASS NIRANJAN DHIYON. JIS GHAR JAYO HON BOHAR
NA AAYO ||
O man! You meditate upon God in such a way that your
every breath, while passing through the confluence of three
wind passages, recites the name of God.
The knowledge provided by the Guru eradicates the
darkness of ignorance. When a man after reciting the name of
God attains salvation then he is not to die again and again.
In deep meditation the soul of devotee gets a blissful bath
in the confluence of three wind passages of the human body
which is called the tenth gate.
Then the devotee sees the delightful glimpse of God’s
face with the eyes of his inner-self and he gets absorbed in the
eternal flame of God.
The soul reaches the abode of God. The mystical sweet
sound of celestial conch resounds there continuously. Only
that devotee can experience and understand who has been
blessed by the God. Just like a dumb man, he cannot explain
the experience to any other person.
Your abode is situated in the absolute silence zone. This
is the reason, why a soul becomes sad? Because the soul fails
to establish relationship with You, O God!
Ravidass says, I meditate upon the flawless God. By
reciting his name I have absorbed in Him and attained
emancipation from the cycle of birth – death and rebirth. 

SHABAD-97
(Raag Bhairo)
ABGAT NATH NIRANJAN DEVA. MAIN KA JAANU TUMHARI SEWA ||TEK|| BANDHU NA
BANDHAN CHAYUN NA CHAYA. TUMHI SEYUN NIRANJAN RAYA. CHARAN PATAAL SEES
ASMANNA. SO THAKUR KAISE SAPUT SAMANNA. SIV SINKADIK ANNT NA PAYA. BRHAMA
KHOJAT JANAM GAWAYA. TORRU NA PAATI PUJUN NA DEVA. SEHAJ SAMADH KARUN HAR
SEWA. NAKH PARSED JA KAI SURSAR DHARA. ROMAVALI ATHARAH BHARA. CHARO BED JA
KAI SUMIRAT SANSA. BHAGAT HAIT GAWAYE RAVIDASSA ||
O Flawless! O Eternal!! O pure God!!! I do not know
how to serve you.
I shall not indulge in worldly affairs. I shall not become
slave of Maya. O pure God! I want to serve you only, O flawless
God.
The God, whose feet are in the nether world and head in
the heaven, he cannot be confined to a limited space, time or
place. Rather He is Omnipresent.
Lord Shiv and sons of Brahma could not trace the beginning
and end of the God. Brahma has also spent his whole life in
search of the God.
O God! I do not worship you by plucking petals and
offering in your feet. I meditate upon you with full
concentration, while sitting in meditation posture I am here to
serve you only, O God.
O God! The Ganges flows from your holy feet. The entire
universe is just like a small hair of your body.
Brahma, the composer of four Veds, recites the name of
God repeatedly. Ravidass says, I sing in the praise of God in
order to obtain His blessings. 

SHABAD-98
(Raag Bhairo)
BHAISH LIYO PAI BHED NA JANIYO. AMRIT LEH BISHAI SO MANIYO ||TEK|| KAM KRODH
MEH JANAM GANVAYO. SADHU SANGAT MIL RAM NA GAYON. TILAK DIYON PE TAPAN NA
JAYI. MALA PEHAR GHANERI LAAYI. KEH RAVIDASS MARAM JO PAAYON. DEV NIRNAJAN
SAT KAT DHIYON ||
O Pompous man! You have adopted the out-worldly
appearance of a sadhu, but you do not know the secret of
God. You are like that man who after drinking nectar is running
after poison.
O man, you are losing your life in sinful and sexual deeds,
by forgetting God. Even in the company of saints and other
holy persons, you have not sung the songs in praise of God’s
name.
By making a saffron mark on the forehead, the heat of
evil deeds will not become cool. Like this O man, by wearing
rosary, you cannot achieve peace of mind.
Ravidass says, the man who by renouncing worldly rituals
makes efforts to realise the true knowledge, only that man can
worship the flawless God in his true heart. 

SHABAD-99
(Raag Bhairo)
GURU SABH REHAS AGMAIN JAANAI. DHUNDHAI KOYUN CHAT SASTRAN MEH, KIDHU KO
VED VISHANAI ||TEK|| SAANS USAANS CHARAVAI BAHU BIDH, BAITHI SUN SAMADHI.
FANTYON KAN BHABHUT TAN LAAYI, ANIK BHARMAT VAIRAGI. TIRATH BARAT KARIYEH
BAHUTERE, KATHA BASAT BAHU SANAI. KEH RAVIDASS MILIYON GUR PURAY, JIH ANTAR
HAR MILANAY ||
Guru knows the secret of inaccessible God, whereas some
one tries to locate him in the six Shastars and four Veds.
In order to achieve God, someone occupies himself in
the ascetic activities of taking and releasing long breath.
Someone has got his ears torn and has rubbed ash on his
body. Someone after becoming ascetic has been wondering
hither and thither.
Many devotees go to the places of pilgrimage to
achieve the God. Others observe fast. Few think that the
abode of God is in the congregation where people sing
songs in His praise.
Ravidass says, I have achieved the God in my inner self
by the grace of true Guru. 

SHABAD-100
(Raag Basant)
TUJHEH SUJHANTA KACHHU NAHI. PAHIRAVA DEKHE UBH JAHI. GARABVATI KA NAHI THAAO.
TERI GARDAN UPAR LAVAI KAAO. TU KANIE GARBEH BAVLI. JAISE BHADAO KHUMBRAJ TU
TIS TE KHARI UTAVALI. || RAHAAO || JAISE KURANKI NAHI PAIO BHED. TAN SUGANDH
DHUDHAI PARDES. AP TAN KA JO KARE BICHAR. TIS NAHI JAMKANKAR KARE KHUAAR.
PUTAR KALTAR KA KARAHI AHANKAAR. THAKUR LEKHA MAGANHAAR. FERE KA DUKH SAHAI
JIO. PACHHE KISEH PUKAREH PIO PIO. SADHU KI JAO LEHI OT. TERE MITEH PAP SABH KOT
KOT. KAHI RAVIDASS JO JAPAI NAAM. TIS JAT NA JANAM NA JON KAAM ||
You know nothing, O my body! Seeing good clothes
you become so proud of yourself. The proud bride shall not
find a place with the Lord. Above your head the crow of
death is cawing.
Why are you so proud? O silly girl! Even the life of a
mushroom, flourished during the month of Bhadon is longer
than you.
The deer does not know the secret of musk. The musk is
within its own body, but the deer searches the musk outside.
He who understands his own fleeting body, the messenger
of death does not abuse him.
The man is so proud of his son and his wife. But the God
will take an account from him only. O soul! You have to suffer
pain for the actions, you have committed. Afterwards, whom
shall you call dear! dear!!
If you seek the protection of holy saints , then millions
upon millions of your sins shall be erased .
Ravidass says, who chant the name of God, he is not
concerned with the caste, or birth, or transmigration. 

SHABAD-101
(Raag Malar)
NAGAR JANAN MERI JAT BIKHIAT CHAMARAN. RIDAI RAM GOBIND GUN SARAN.
||RAHAAO|| SURSARI SALAL KIRAT BARUNI RE SANT JAN KARAT NAHI PANAN. SURA APVITAR
NAT AVAR JAL RE SURSARI MILAT NEH HOE ANAN. TAR TAAR APVITAR KAR MANIAI RE JAISE
KAGRA KARAT BICHARAN. BHAGAT BHAGUT LIKIAI TIH UPRE PUJIAI KAR NAMASKARAN.
MERI JAT KUT BANDHLA DHOR DHOVANTA NITEH BANARSI AAS PASA. AB BIPAR PARDHAN
TIHI KARAHI DANDUT TERE NAAM SARNAE RAVIDASS DASA ||
O city men! I am a tanner by caste, but in my heart I
meditate on God.
If wine is made from water of the Ganges, the holy men
will not drink it. If anybody puts wine, which is impure or any
other liquid into water of the Ganges, then these liquids after
absorbing in the Ganges, will become the water of the Ganges.
Like this, while remembering the name of God, I am fully
absorbed in Him.
The palm-tree is admittedly impure. If God’s words are
written on a leaf of a palm-tree, then men will worship it and
bow before it.
My trade is dressing and cutting leather and daily remove
dead cattle from the city of Banaras.
Yet prominent Brahmans now prostrate themselves before
me, since I, the slave Ravidass have acquired the shelter of
your name, O, God. 

SHABAD-102
(Raag Malar)
HAR JAPAT TEU JANA PADAM KAVLAS PAT TAS SAM TUL NAHI AN KOU. EK HI EK ANEK HOE
BISATHRIO AN RE AN BHARPUR SOOU || RAIHAAO || JA KAI BHAGVAT LEKHIAI AVAR NAHI
PEKHIAI TAS KI JAT ACHHOP CHHIPA. BIAS MEH LEKHIAI SANAK MEH PEKHIAI NAAM KI
NAMNA SAPAT DIPA. JA KAI ID BAKRID KUL GAU RE BADH KARAHI MANIAH SEKH SAHID
PIRA. JA KAI BAP VAISI KARI PUT AISI SARI TIHU RE LOK PARSIDH KABIRA. JA KE KUTAMB KE
DHEDH SABH DHOR DHOVANT PHIREH AJAHU BANNARSI AAS PASA. AACHAR SAHIT BIPAR
KARAHI DANDUT TIN TANAI RAVIDASS DASAAN DASA ||
Neither the Lord of Lakshmi, nor the Lord of Kailash, not
anyone else is equal to those who recite the name of God. He
is One alone though diffused in many ways. Therefore, you
repeat the name of God.
In whose house there was nothing except devotion to
God, he was by caste an untouchable Chhimba-calico-printer-
Saint Namdev. The greatness of God’s name can be known
in the writings of Rishi Ved Vyas. It can also be observed in
the sons of Brahma. It is also famous through the seven
islands of the earth.
Whose family used to sacrifice cows at the Eid and Bakr
Eid, and who worshipped Shaikhs and martyrs including Pirs?
Whose father used to observe such rituals, his son Kabir,
became a celebrated saint in the three worlds.
All the tanners of my family even still today are engaged
in removing dead cattle from the city of Banaras, yet the noted
Brahmans prostrate themselves before me, says Ravidass, the
slave of God’s slaves. 

SHABAD-103
(Raag Malar)
MILAT PIARO PARAN NATH KAVAN BHAGAT TE. SADHSANGAT PAI PARAM GATE. RAHAAO.
MAILE KAPRE KAHA LAO DHOVAO. AVAIGI NID KAHA LAG SOVAO. JOI JOI JORIO SOI SOI
PHATIO. JHUTHAI BANAJ UTH HI GAI HATIO. KAHO RAVIDASS BHAIOO JAB LEKHO. JOI JOI
KINO SOI SOI DEKHIO ||
By what devotions shall I meet my beloved, the Lord of
souls? The supreme state is obtained by association with saints.
My dress has become dirty. How long shall I wash it?
How long shall I remain in this sleep, which has come
upon me?
All the things, which I had collected, have been perished.
The shop of spurious business is closed.
Ravidass says, when my account will be taken, and then I
shall see whatever I have done and recorded to my credit. 

SHABAD 104
(Raag Aasawari)
KESVAYEH VIKAT MAYA TOR TATAI BIKAL GAT MOR ||TEK|| SUBISH DASSAN KARAAL EHMUKH
GRASAT SUDRIRR SU MESH. NIRUKH MAKHI BAKHAT BIAKUL LOBH KAAL NA DEKH.
INDRIYADIK DUKH DARAN ASANKHYADIK PAP. TOH BHAGAT RAGHUNATH ANTAR TAH TRAS
NA TAAP. PRATIGYA PARITPAL CHOUN JUG BHAGAT PURWAN KAAM. AAS MOH BHROS HAI
RAVIDASS JAI JAI RAM ||
O God! Without your holy name, the Maya causes dreadful
sufferings; therefore, the man remains disturbed. Maya bites
the man with her serpent like dangerous sting. Maya swallows
the strong and sturdy man.
As a fly cannot resist temptation after seeing sweet
commodity item, like this the greedy man is wasting his precious
time.
The man is committing numerous sins because he is
entrapped in sensuous desires. O God! The man after reciting
your name can only be able to save himself from sufferings.
O God! Due to Your solemn pledge, You have been
nourishing the people during four ages; You have been fulfilling
the desires of Your devotees.
Ravidass says, O God I have full faith in You. O
Omnipresent! I hail You. 

SHABAD-105
(Raag Aasawari)
RAMAH PUJA KAHAN CHARRAU.|PHAL AUR PHOOL ANUPAM NA PAYO||TEK||THANHAR
DOODH JO BACHRU JOOTHARO. PUHUP BHAWAR JAL MEEN BITARIYON. MALIAGIR
BERRIYON BHUANGA. BISH AMRIT DOUO EIKAI SANGA. DHOOP DEEP NAIBEDHI BASA|
KAISAI PUJ KARHAYAN TERI DASA. MANNHI PUJA MANNHI DHOOP. MANNHI SAIYUN SEHAJ
SARUP. PUJA ARCHA NA JAANU TERI. KAHAY RAVIDASS KAVAN GATT MERI ||
Where shall I find anything to offer to you in worship, O
God! I cannot find other flowers superior to these.
The calf has defiled the milk in the cow’s udder by tasting it.
The bumble-bee has spoiled the flowers and the fish the
water.
Serpents twine round the sandal-tree. Poison and ambrosia
dwell together.
Incense, lamps and consecrated bread are polluted. How
shall your slave O God, perform your worship?
My mind is worship and my mind is incense. During the
calm state of mind, I can have a glimpse of your bright face.
I do not know how to perform your worship. Ravidass
says, in what condition, I am? How shall I attain salvation? 

SHABAD-106
(Raag Aasawari)
BARAJ HO BARAJ BITHULAI MAYA JAG KHAYA. MAHAPRABHAL SABH HI BAS KIYE, SUR NAR
MUNN BHARMAYA||TEK|| BALAK BIRDH TARUN ATI SUNDER, NANA BHAIS BANAVAI. JOGI
JATI TAPI SANASI, PANDIT REHAN NA PAVAI. BAJIGAR KI BAAJI KAARAN, SAB KO KOTIG AVAI.
JO DEKHAI SO BHOOL RAHAI,WAKA CHELA MARAM JO PAVAI. KHAND BRAHMANND LOK
SAB JITAI, EH BIDHI TEJ JANAVAI. SIAMBHU KA CHIT CHOR LIYO HAI, WAKAI PACHAI LAGA
DHAVAI. EIN BATAN SUKHCHAIN MARIAT HAI, SAB KO RAHAI UJHARI. NEK DRISHAT KIN
RAKHO KAISO, MAITO BIPAT HUMARI. KAHAI ‘RAVIDASS’ UDAAS BHAYON MANN, BHAAJ
KAHAN AB JAIYEH. EIT UTH TUM GOBIND GUSAIN, TUMHI MAH SAMYEAH ||
O God! Please control Maya, because you are the liberator.
Maya has engulfed the whole world and lured the deities, saints
and people.
Maya has captivated the children, old, young and intellectual
persons with her various charming and beautiful faces. The
ascetics, hermits, monks and learned men cannot face her.
Due to strange performance of the wonderful God, every
body on the earth is engaged in performing miracles, and
neglecting the God under the influence of Maya. Maya has
overpowered the people living in the whole universe. By this
way, she depicts her power. Maya has gained control over every
body. Maya chases every person and conquers him. After
following Maya, the man dies in worries. Maya says to every
body that she is with him. O God! You please save us from the
clutches of Maya.
Ravidass says O God! By singing songs in Your praise, I
have dejected Maya. Where shall we go after renouncing Your
name? You are omnipresent. After reciting Your name, the
man absorbs in You. 

SHABAD-107
(Raag Aasawari)
TUJHI CHARAN ARBIND BHAWAN MANN, PAAN KARAT PAIYO PAIYO RAMIYA DHAN|| TEK||
SAMPAT VIPAT PATAL MAYA DHAN, TA MEH MAGAN NA HOT TERO JAN. KAHAN BHIYON JAI
GAT TAN CHIN CHIN. PREM JAYE TO DARPAI TERO NIJ JAN. PREM RAJ LAI RAKHO RIDHAI
DHAR, KAHAI RAVIDASS CHUTIBO KAWAN PAR ||
O God! Your lotus-feet are the home of my heart. By
drinking the nectar of Your name, I have found the God, who
is my wealth.
Prosperity, adversity, worldly love, and wealth screen God
from man. In them Your servant is not absorbed.
What will it matter if my body is cut into pieces? O God!
Your slave only fears that your love may not depart.
O God! Your servant has absorbed You in his heart with
love. Ravidass says, now how will you escape? How shall I get
emancipation? 

SHABAD-108
(Raag Aasawari)
BANDAI JAAN SAHIB GANI. SAMAJH BED KATAIB BOLAI KABAI MAIN KIYA MANI. JAWANI
DUNI JAMAL SURAT DEKHIYE THIR NAHIN VAI. DAM CHA SAI SEHANS EIKKIS HAR DIN
KHAJANAI THAIN JAH VAI. MANI MARE GARAB ‘GAFIL’ BAIMIHIR BAIPEER VAI. DARI KHANAI
PARAT CHOBA HOT NAHI TAKSEER VAI. SIAPI SAPEDI TURANGI NANA RANG BISAL VAI. NAPAID
TAIN PAIDA KIYA PAIMAAL KARAT NA BAR VAI. KUCHU GAANTH KHARCHI MIHIR TOSA
KHAIR KHOOBI HAATH VAI. DHANI KA FURMAN AAYA TAB KIYA CHALAI SATH VAI. TAJH
BADJAWA BENAJAR KAMDILAN KAR KHASAM KI KAN VAI. RAVIDASS KI ARDASS SUN KACHU
HAK HALAL PACHAN VAI ||
O man! It is definite that the God is generous one. All the
religious books such as Veds and Quran are explaining that
there is no jewel in the wholly Kaaba, except God.
The excitement of youth and glamour of beauty are
instable. Every day your twenty one thousand and six hundred
valuable breath are going waste.
O merciless, stupid and teacher-less man, you are being
ruined by pride. You have achieved the body consisting of ten
gates. The drum of death is continuously beating in your body.
You adopt the way of righteousness so that you cannot be
trapped by the god of death.
The supreme God has created numerous colours such as
black, white, yellow etc. The self-illuminated God has created
the universe which He can destroy within no time.
O man! You take my advice seriously and catch hold the
blessing of God and merit of your good deeds. These will
provide you help to cross the ocean of this world. By this way
you will achieve the eternal bliss. When you will get the orders
of the Almighty, at that time only the wealth of the name of
God will accompany you.
O blind and weak-hearted man! Divorce your bad words
and take refuge in the name of God. Ravidass says, O man,
you adopt honest means and recognise the true God. 

SHABAD-109
(Raag Aasawari)
SO KACHU VICHARIO TATHAI MERO MANN THIRU HAIV RAHIYO. HAR RANG LAGO TATHAI
MERO BARAN PATAL BHAYON || TEK || DHAN SO PANTHI PANTH CHALAWA. AGAM GAWAN
MAI GAM DIKHLAWAN. ABRAN BARAN KATHAI JIN KOI. GHAT GHAT BIAAP RAHIYON HAR
SOI. JIHI PAD SUNNAR PREM PIASA. SO PAD RUM RAHIYON RAVIDASSA ||
When I think a little about God, then my mind becomes
stable. When I dye my inner-self in the fast colour of God’s
name, then the fake colour fades away. Blessed is that Guru,
who has started the religious order of worship and telling the
people how to absorb in the sorrow-less God.
Do not practise caste-system because all human beings
are equal and God is residing in every particle.
After taking refuge in the lotus feet of God, the deities
and men experience different kind of thirst. Ravidass says, I
have absorbed myself in the lotus feet of God. 

SHABAD-110
(Raag Aasawari)
BHAI RE SEHAJ BANDO SOI BIN SEHAJ SIDHI NA HOI. NAYOLEEN MANN JO JANIYEH JAB
KEET BHIRINGI HOYI ||TEK|| AAPA PER CHINAYE NAHI RE AUR KO UPDESH. KAHAN TE TUM
AAYON RE BHAI JAHUNGAI KITH DES. KEHIYEH TO KEHIYEH KA KEH KAHIYEH KAHAN NA KO
PATIAYEH. RAVIDASS DAS AJAAN HAIV KAR RAHIYON SEHAJ SAMAIE ||
O brother! Pray to God in order to achieve the spiritual
calm, because before reaching the stage of ecstasy, you could
not get salvation.
If you will not involve yourself in the work like an ant till
then you cannot achieve anything. Slowly and slowly, you absorb
yourself in God.
O brother, you have not so far understood, who is your
own and who is not. You are giving sermons to others. You
should explore this point from where you have come and where
you have to go?
If you want to say something, then what will you say? If
you say something then who will trust you?
Ravidass says by renouncing ostentation, I have acquired
a state of spiritual calm and I have absorbed in you, O God. 

SHABAD-111
(Raag Aasawari)
DEHU KALALI EK PIALA | AISA AWDHU HOI MATWALA ||TEK|| KAHAI KALALI PIALA DEAUO.
PIVANHARE KA SIR LEAUO. EARI KALALI TAIN KIYA KIYA. SIR KE SATAI PIALA DIYAN. SIR KAI
SATAI MEHANGA BHARI. PIVAIGA APNA SIR DARI. CHAND SOOR DOYOUN SANMUKH HOYI.
PEEVAI PIALA MARAI NA KOI. SEHAJ SUNH MEIN BHATHI SRAVAI. PEEVAI RAVIDASS
GURMUKH DRAVAI ||
O true saints, give me one cup of elixir of God’s name.
After drinking such nectar I want to acquire the state of ecstasy.
Saints say, we can give you a cup of elixir provided you
sacrifice your head.
In exchange for his head, one gets this very costly cup of
elixir to drink. Only by offering his head one can drink a cup
of such nectar.
After reaching the confluence of three wind passages in
the human body, one can drink such elixir only then he can
become immortal.
Ravidass says, after attaining such state of ecstasy, the
holy men drink such nectar of the name of God. 

SHABAD-112
(Raag Aasawari)
AISI MERI JAAT VIKHIAT CHAMAR. HIRDAI RAM GOBIND GUN SAR ||TEK|| SURSAR JAL
LIYAN KIRIT BARUNI RE JAISE SANT JAN NAH KARAT PAN. SURA APVITAR NIT GANGJAL
MANIYEH SURSAR MILAT NEH HOT AAN. TAR TAAR APVITAR KAR MANIYEH JAISE KAAGRA
KARAT BICHARN. BHAGWAT BHAGWANT JAB UPARAI LIKHIYEAH TAB PUJIYEAH KAR
NAMASKARAN. ANEK ADHAM JIB NAAM SUN UDHRAI PATIT PAWAN BHAYEH PARAS SARAN.
BHANAT RAVIDASS RARANKAR GUN GABANT SANT SADHU BHAYEH SEHAJ PAAR ||
O God! I am a known tanner. But in my heart, I sing songs
in praise of Your virtuous qualities.
If alcohol is added in the holy water of the Ganges,
then the water becomes impure and saints do not drink that
impure water.
Such water of the Ganges is impure in which liquor is
added. You should also think such water impure because the
crow does not drink such water. But when the wine and impure
water of drains dissolve in the water of Ganges, then it becomes
the water of Ganges.
The tree of palm is believed impure. When the name of
God and hymns in His praise were got written on the leaves of
the palm trees, then people bow their heads before these leaves.
So called low-caste people, have attained emancipation
by reciting the name of God, who is redeemer of sinners.
Ravidass says, by singing songs in praise of the colourless
and formless God, saints and sages have attained salvation. 

SHABAD-113
(Raag Aasawari)
PAAR GAYA CHAHAI SAB KOI DOHU URWAAR PAR NEH HOYI. || TEK||PAR KAHAI URWAAR
SO PARA BIN PAD PARCHAI BHRAMAIN GAMWARA. PAR PARAMPAD MAANJH MURARI TA
MAIN AAP RAMAI BANWARI. PURAN BARHAM BASAI SABH THAYI KAHAI RAVIDASS MILAI
SUKH SAYI ||
Everybody in this world wants to get salvation, but
without reciting the name of God, the man cannot swim across
the ocean of existence.
Salvation means to get rid of from the cycle of
transmigration of soul. But without knowing the absolute truth,
the man remains entrapped in illusion.
The state of supreme meditation helps the man to swim
across the ocean of existence. The God himself resides in
that state.
After reaching the state of ecstasy, a man realises that the
perfect God is omnipresent. Ravidass says, the attainment of
God is a supreme bliss. 

SHABAD-114
(Raag Aasawari)
SATGUR HUMHU LAKAHI BAAT. JANAM PACHLAI PAP NASANAI, MITOGO SABH SANTAP
||TEK|| BAHAR KHOJAT JANAM GAMWAI, UNMANN DHIYAN RAHAI GHAT AAP. SHABAD
ANAHAD BAAJAT GHAT MEH, AGAM GIAN BHO GUR PARTAP. DHAN DARA MEH RAHIYON
MAGAN NIT, GUNIYON NA MICHU KO CHAP. KEH RAVIDASS GUR RAH DIKHAWAI, TRICHA
BUJH MITI MANN SANTAP ||
The true Guru shows the real path to the man by adopting
which one can swim across the sea of existence. By traversing
on this path, the sins of previous birth and all other sufferings
and agonies come to an end.
A man endeavours hard in order to find the God in the
world and loses his life. But sitting in meditation, by reciting
his name, the man attains the state of spiritual calm. Only
then he discovers the God. The mystic sound starts to resound
in the body. Such divine knowledge can only be achieved
through the Guru.
The man remains busy in wealth and wife, and does not
think about the qualities of God.
Ravidass says, the Guru shows the real way, by adopting
which all desires and anxieties of the man will desert him. 

SHABAD-115
(Raag Aasawari)
BAPURAO SAT RAVIDASS KAHAI RE. GIAN BICHAR CHARAN CHIT LAVAI HAR KI SARAN RAHAI
RE || TEK|| PAATI TORRAI PUJ RACHAVAI TARAN TIRAN KAHAIN RE. MURAT MAH
PARMESHWAR TOU PANI MEH TIRAI RE. TRIBIDH SANSAR KAWAN BIDHI TIRBOU JE DRRIRH
NAAV NA GAHAI RE. NAM CHADIJAI DANDAI BAISE TOU DUNA DUKH SAHAI RE. GURU KO
SABAD AUR SURAT KUDALI KHODAT KOI LAHAI RE. RAM KAHHU KE BATAI NA AAYO SO NEKU
LABHAI RE. JHOTHI MAYA JAG DAHKAYA TO TIN TAP DAHAI RE. KAHAI RAVIDASS RAM JAP
RASNA MAYA KAHUN KE SANG NA RAHAI RE ||
Ravidass says the truth that all human beings should think
about the spiritual knowledge of the God and take refuge in
His holy feet.
The man after plucking flower-petals offer these to the
idol of God because he thinks that the God is the liberator
and he can help him to swim across the sea of existence.
Ravidass says, if the God has taken refuge in that idol then
why the statue of God does not float in the water?
So far a man does not acquire the strong boat consisting
of God’s name by divorcing the three characteristics of Maya,
till then he cannot swim across the sea of existence. If, by
ignoring the boat of God’s name he catches only oar, then he
has to suffer.
According to the pious teachings of the Guru if we apply
the spade of knowledge only then we will achieve our goal.
The Supreme God is not allocated to a special one. A
man, who searches the God in his inner-heart, achieves Him.
The false Maya is misleading the world. The three
characteristics of sorrow are causing grave damage to the body
of man.
Ravidass advises the man to renounce Maya and recite
the name of God. 

SHABAD-116
(Raag Aasawari)
EH ANDES SOCH YIH MERE. NISIWASAR GUN GAYO TERE || TEK|| TUM CHINTIT MERI
CHINTHU JAYI. TUM CHINTAMAN HOIE KI NAHI. BHAGAT HAIT TUM KAHAN KAHAN NEH
KEENA. HAMRI BER BHAYAI BALHINA. KAHAI RAVIDASS DAS APRADHI. JAIH TUM DRAVO
MAIN BHAGAT NA SADHI ||
O God! There is only one apprehension in my mind that I
sing songs in Your praise day and night.
O God! By remembering Your holy name, all my worries
have disappeared. Only Your name grants the desired fruit.
O God! What You have not done for Your devotees? But
when I need Your blessings at that time, You become powerless.
Why do not You help me?
Ravidass says, the slave is a defaulter, who even after
becoming Your devotee is not worshipping You. 

SHABAD-117
(Raag Aasawari)
BORI KARILAI RAM SANEHA. SANG SAHELI VIAH CHALI SAB, CHAADH NAIHAR RA GEHA
||TEK|| KHEL KHILAR BAIS SABH BITI, MANN CHIT BHAJ NA PIYON PARTITI. MAIN MAIN JO
LO GARABH BORANI, TOUN LOUN PIARA MANN NEH AANI. AAPA MAIT MAIN MERI KHOHI,
GARAB TIAGI ARPIHI NIJ DEHI. PIYO KO NARI UHI MANN AAYI, JIHI ABH ANTAR AVAR NEH
KAYI. JO LOUN PIARA MANN NEH AAYI, KA SOREH SHINGAR BANAYI. SOI SATI RAVIDASS
BAKHANI, TAN MANN SIYOUN PIYO RANG SAMANI ||
O insane woman! You love God. Your fellow friends have
got married. Therefore, after leaving the house of their parents
they have gone to the houses of their bride-grooms.
You have wasted your life while playing and jumping. You
have not, so far, won the faith of your dear one. As far as you
are proud of your beauty till then your lover, the God, will not
love you.
By renouncing pride and ego, you sacrifice yourself and
offer your everything to your lover, the God. The inaccessible
Lord loves only that woman who has renounced ego and pride.
What is the use to decorate the face with false make-up if
the bride is not liked by her bride-groom?
That woman will be called the virtuous who surrenders
her mind, body and heart to her husband and absorbs in Him
completely, says Ravidass. 

SHABAD-118
(Raag Aasawari)
RE MANN MANCHALA SANSAR SAMUNDAI, TU CHITAR BACHITAR BICHAR RE. JIH GALAI
GALIAHI MARIYEA, SO SANG DOOR NIWAR RE ||TEK|| YAM HAI DIGHAN DOR HAI KANKAN,
PAR TIYA GALO JAAN RE. HAVAI RAS LUBUDH RAMAI YO MURAKH, MANN PACHITAVAI NIAAN
RE. PAP GUNIO CHAI DHARAM NIBOLI, TU DEKH DEKH PHAL CHAKH RE. PARTIRIYAN SANG
BHALO JO HOVAI, TO RANO RAVAN DEKH RE. KAHAI RAVIDASS RATAN PHAL KAARAN, GOBIND
KAI GUN GAAYE RE. KAANCHO KUMBH BHRIYO HAL JAISE, DIN DIN GHATO JAYE RE ||
O mind! You are like a fish whereas the world is like a sea
full of various colours. You think about it. You are entrapped
in the false attachment, therefore, your body is decaying and
you are dying. You liberate yourself from such bonds.
The god of death i.e. Yamraj is knocking at your door. But
you are engrossed in evil deeds. The company of other’s wife
will certainly destroy you, O silly man! You are engaged in the
enjoyment and pleasure. But you have to repent like an ignorant
man later on.
Six religious principles are like the fruits of margosa
tree for a sinner. Even then you taste such bitter fruit of
sinful deeds.
If you think that the company of another’s wife is a moral
act, see the end of king Ravan.
Ravidass says, O man! In order to achieve the precious
gem of God’s name you have to sing songs in the praise of God.
As water in the unbaked earthen pitcher goes on leaking, like
this you are wasting your life without reciting the name of God.

SHABAD-119
(Raag Aasawari)
RATH KO CHATUR CHLAWANHARO. KHIN HAANKAI KHIN UBHO RAKHAI NAHI AAN KO
SARO ||TEK|| JAB RATH RAHAI SARTHI THAKAI TABKO RATH CHALAWAI. NAD BIND SABHAI
HI THAKAI MANN MANNGAL NEH GAWAI. PANCH TAT KO YAHU RATH SAAJIYO ARDHAI
URDH NIWASA. CHARAN KAMAL LIYON LAYE RAHIYON HAI GUN GAVAI RAVIDASSA ||
The charioteer, who drives the chariot of body is very
intelligent and cunning. In a moment he starts driving the
chariot too fast and saves the chariot from going off the track.
No body knows about this game.
When the charioteer becomes tired then who drives the
chariot of body? At this time mind cannot sing auspicious
songs. It means that the man cannot perceive the joy of eternal
bliss by forgetting God. The mind of the man cannot sing the
song continuously in God’s praise.
The God has created the chariot of man’s body with five
elements. The God resides in the universe. While reciting the
song in praise of God, I have absorbed in Him by worshipping
His lotus feet, says Ravidass. 

SHABAD-120
(Raag Aasawari)
JO TUM TORO RAM MAI NAHI TORON. TUM SOUN TOR KAWAN SOUN JORO ||TEK|| TIRATH
BARAT NA KARO ANDESA. TUMRAI CHARAN KAMAL KA BHROSA. JENH JENH JAYOUN
TUMHARI PUJA. TUM SA DEV AWAR NEH DUJA. MAI APNO MANN HAR SO JORIYON. HAR
SO JOR SABAN SE TORIYO. SAB PAR HAR TUMHARI AASA. MANN KRAM BACHAN KAHA
RAVIDASSA ||
O God! My love and devotion is true. If You break
relationship with me, even then, I shall not break relationship
with You. Because after breaking relationship with You,
O God with whom I shall join?
I am not worried about taking bath at pilgrim-centres or
observing fast because I have full faith in Your lotus feet.
O God! Wherever I go, I only worship You. There is no
other great or pious Lord on the earth except You.
O God! I have connected my mind with You. While doing
this, I have snapped relationship with all others.
Ravidass says, O God! All my hopes are focussed on you.
I want to see Your holy face. I am demanding this due to my
devotion and pious deeds. 

SHABAD-121
(Raag Aasawari)
KAIH BIDHI AB SUMIRO RE ATH DULABH DEEN DAYAL. MAIN MAHA BISHYI ADHIK AATUR
KAMNA KI JHAL ||TEK|| KAHAN DIMB BAHAR KIYE HAR KANAK KASOTI HAAR. BAHAR
BHITAR SAAKH TU HOU KIYON SU SOU ADHIAAR. KAHAN BHAYON BHUT PAKHAND KIYE
HAR HIRDAI SAPNAI NA JAN. JO DARA BIBHICHARNI MUKH PATIBARTA JIYA AAN. MAI
HIRDAI HAR BAITHYON HAR MOU PAI SARYON NA EIKO KAAJ. BHAV BHAGAT RAVIDASS DAI
PRITPAL KARO MOH AAJ ||
O Cherisher of the poor! It is very difficult to recite Your
name because the man is engrossed in the flames of sensual
desires due to his lustful, salacious and immoral acts.
The man organises false pomp and show to achieve the
God. But only that man qualifies the test who has successfully
passed the critical scrutiny of the expert judge and proves
himself the pure gold. O God! You know everything which is
happening inside and outside. The man, due to his ignorance,
is entrapped in the darkness.
Then what is the use of organising such pomp and show
if he does not remember the God even in his dreams. It is just
like a characterless woman who talks about her faithfulness
towards her husband but in her mind she has been thinking
about another person.
O God! I have lost the game of the world without Your
name. I cannot complete a single work. Ravidass says, O God!
You are nourishing and protecting me, that is why I am
performing Your worship with Your blessings. 

SHABAD-122
(Raag Aasawari)
AB KAISE CHUTAI NAM RAT LAAGI ||TEK|| PRABHU JI TUM CHANDAN HUM PANI. JAKI ANG
ANG BAS SAMANNI. PRABHU JI TUM GHAN BAN HUM MORA. JAISAI CHITWAT CHAND
CHAKORA. PRABHU JI TUM DEEPAK HUM BATI. JA KI JOT BARAI DIN RATI. PRABHU JI TUM
MOTI HUM DHAGA. JAISAI SONHI MILAT SUHAGA. PRABHU JI TUM SWAMI HUM DASA.
AISI BHAGAT KARAI RAVIDASSA ||
How can I give up the holy act of repeating Your pious
name? O God! As a result of repeating Your name
continuously, I have attained Your worship. Now You please
tell me, how I can move back from such pious action.
O God! You are like sandal-wood and I am just like water.
As after absorbing in sandal, the water becomes sandal, like this
absorbing in you, every part of my body has become fragrant.
O God! You are cloud and I am Your peacock, as You are
the moon, I am Your Chakor.
O God! If You are a lamp, then I am the wick of the
lamp. The light of this lamp is illuminating the whole universe
day and night.
You are a pearl and I am a thread. In Your pious company
I have become blessed one and auspicious. I have become like
that gold which after rubbing the borax shines brightly.
O God! You are Master whereas I am Your servant.
Ravidass says, O God! I remain busy in Your worship. 

SHABAD-123
(Raag Aasawari)
MADHO BHRAM KAISE NA BILAYI. TATHAIN DUTI DARSAI AAYI ||TEK|| KANAK KUTAK SUIT
PAT JUDA RAJ BHUANG BHRAM JAISA. JAL TARANG PAHAN PRATIMA JIAON, BHRAM JEEV
DUT AISA. BIMAL EIK RAS UPJAI NA BINSAI, UDAI ASAT DOYOUN NAHI. BIGTA BIGAT GHATAI
NEH KABHU, BASAT BASAI SAB MAHI. NISCHAL NIRAKAR AJ ANUPAM, NIRBHAY GAT GOBINDA.
AGAM AGOCHAR ACHHAR ATRAK, NIRGUN ANT ANANDA. SADA ATIT GIAN GHAN BARJIT,
NIRBIKAR ABINASI. KAHAI RAVIDASS SEHAJ SUN SAT, JEEVAN MUKAT NIDHI KAASI ||
O Lord Madho! Illusion does not vanish from the mind of
a man because there is duality in his mind.
Due to illusion, the gold and ornaments made from gold,
yarn and fabric knitted from yarn, look different, like this due
to ignorance the rope looks like a snake in the dark. Due to
illusion, the water and its tides, the stone and sculpture made
from stone look different, like this due to duality the man looks
separate from God.
The pure and holy God resides in the world. That God
neither takes birth nor dies; neither rises nor sets like the sun.
He neither decreases nor increases. The God is omnipresent.
The God is immovable, shapeless, unborn and unique.
He is devoid of fear, immortal, illogical, without attributes
and delightful.
The God is immortal. He cannot be known without
knowledge. God is flawless and imperishable.
Ravidass says the state of spiritual calm and bliss is true.
Such calmness and blissfulness provides salvation to the
people, which is a unique treasure. 

SHABAD-124
(Raag Aasawari)
MANN MERO SAT SAROOP BICHAR. AAD ANT ANANT PARAM PAD SANSA SAKAL NIWAR
||TEK|| JAS HAR KAHIYE TAS HAR NAHI HAI ASS JAS KACHU TAISA. JANAT JANAT JAAN
RAHEYON MANN KARAM KAHO NIH KAISA. KAHIAT AAN ANUBHAVAT AAN RAS MILAI NA
BIGAR HOI. BAHAR BHITAR PRAGAT GUPAT GHAT-GHAT PRAT AVAR NA KOI. AADHU EIK ANT
PHUN SOYI MADHYA UPADH SU KAISAI. AHAI EIK PAI BHRAM SAI DUJO KANAK ALKRIT
JAISE. KAHAI RAVIDASS PARKASH PARAM PAD KA JAP TAP BARAT PUJA. EIK ANEK ANEK EIK
HAR KAHO KAUN BIDHI DUJA ||
O my mind! Think about the true form of God. This
immortal God has to live from the beginning to the end of this
world. He is bestowing the supreme ranks to the human beings.
By reciting the name of God, the illusion vanishes.
The God is not like this, as people say. No one can say
anything about the form of the God. People want to know the
real form of the God because nobody can know His secret.
A man says about God something else but to perceive
Him is a different experience. After taking the elixir of God’s
name, the man does not indulge in immoral acts.
The God is residing in each particle of the world. God
lives in everyman. There is nothing on the earth without God.
The one God was present in the beginning of the universe
and the same one God is present today and will remain present
in the future also. Due to illusion, the man thinks differently
about Him as he thinks gold and ornaments made from the
gold are different. The man looks separate from the God as a
result of illusion. But the illusion disappears when he absorbs
in the God.
Ravidass says when the eternal light of God illuminates
the heart of a person, only then he obtains the supreme place in
the court of God. Then he does not need to perform meditation,
recitation and worship. The God is residing in the whole universe
after adopting various shapes i.e. unity in diversity. There is no
one like the God in the world as He is unique. 

SHABAD-125
(Raag Aasawari)
THOTHO JAN SOYI PACHORO RE KOI. PACHORO JA MAI NIJ KAN HOYI ||TEK|| THOTHI HAR
BIN JANAM GAMWAYA. THOTHA PANDIT THOTHI BANI. THOTHI HAR BIN SABAI KAHANI.
THOTHA MANDIR BHOG BILASA. THOTHI AAN DEV KI ASAA. SACHA SUMIRAN NAAM BISASA.
MANN BACH KARAM KAHAIN RAVIDASSA ||
O man! The name of God is true. Do not forget Him
because He is not false. The essence of His bliss is absorbed
in the whole world. The body of a man is false and maya is also
false. O man! You are wasting your life without reciting the
name of God.
Pandit is useless without knowledge. His teachings are
baseless and useless without knowledge. All stories are false
without remembering the name of God. The temple without
the name of God will be just like an empty place. The sensual
pleasures are also useless and false. It is also fruitless to worship
any demi-god, except the God.
True is only the name of God. His meditation is also true,
says Ravidass, whose mind is pure, sayings are true and actions
are also true 

SHABAD-126
(Raag Aasawari)
MADHO! MOH EIKU SAHARA TORA ||TEK|| TUMHI MAT PITA PRABH MERO, HOUN MASKEEN
AAT BHORA. TUM JAO TAJO KAVAN MOH RAKHAI, SAHIHAI KAUNU NIHORA. BAHADAMBAR
HOUN KABHUN NA JANIYO, TUM CHARNAN CHIT MORA. AGUN SAGUN DOU SAMKAR
AANIYO, CHOUN DIS DARSAN TORA. PARAS MANN MUH RATU NAH, JAG JANJAR NA THORA.
KEH RAVIDASS TAJ SAB TRISHNA, EIKU RAM CHARAN CHIT MORA ||
O God! You are the only supporter of mine. You are my
mother and father, I am humble, meek and flower sucking
bumble-bee.
O God! If You have given me up then who will provide
help to me? To whom I shall put up my grievances in your
absence?
I do not know to perform pomp and show, as my mind
always resides in Your lotus feet. You please see my good and
bad deeds equally. I am seeing Your holy appearance in all
directions, in both forms, endowed with attributes and without
attributes.
I do not need the philosopher’s stone at all. All
entanglements of life are useless. Ravidass says, by renouncing
all desires, the man devotes his mind and self to worship the
lotus feet of God. 

SHABAD-127
(Raag Todi)
PAWAN JAS MADHO TORA TUM DARUN AGHMOCHAN MORA ||TEK|| KIRAT TERI PAP
BINASAI LOK BED YON GAWAI. JOUN HUM PAP KARAT NEH BHUDHAR TOUN TU KAHAN
NASAVAI. JAB LAG ANG PANK NEH PARSAI TOUN JAL KAHAN PAKHALAI. MANN MALEEN
VISHIYA RAS ANG PANK NEH PARSAI TOUN JAL KAHAN PAKHALAI. MANN MALEEN VISHIYAN
RAS LAPAT TOUN HAR NAAM SAMBHALAI. JO HUM BIMAL HIRDAI CHIT ANTAR DOS KAUN
PAR DHARIHO . KEH RAVIDASS PRABHU TUM DAYAL HOU ABANDH MUKAT KA KARIHO ||
O God! To sing songs in Your praise is so pious that it has
annihilated my terrible sins. The whole humanity and the Veds
say that your glory and praise can eradicate all sins.
If we, the people of the world do not commit sins, as big
as the mountain, O Eternal one, then how should You have
gained the name of Purifier of sinners?
If the body has not been polluted by the mud of sins,
then it will be of no use to wash the parts of body with water.
Now the mind has become impure under the influence of sexual
desires, therefore, the time has come to purify the mind by
reciting the name of God.
Ravidass says, if one’s mind, body and soul are pure,
then there is no need to blame anyone. O God! You are the
ocean of mercy, what I shall do after getting salvation. O
God! Allow me to sing songs in Your praise while living in
Your holy feet. 

SHABAD-128
(Raag Sarang)
JAG MAIN VED BAID MANNIJAI. EIN MAIN AVAR AGAM KACHU AURAI KAHO KAWAN PAR
KIJAI ||TEK|| BHOJAL BIADH ASADH PRABAL ATT PARAM PANTH NA GAHIJAI. PARRAI SUNAI
KACHU SAMUJH NA PARYI ANUBHAI PAD NA LAHIJAI. CHAKH BIHUN KATAAR CHALAT HAIN
TINHU ANNS BHUJ DIJAI. KAHAI RAVIDASS BAMEK TAT BINU SAB MILI GARAT PARIJAI ||
Veds are considered the doctors who treat the diseases
of the patients. Veds tell something else about the God but
facts about the inaccessible God are different. To whom one
should believe?
The unfathomable ocean of existence has become a strong
house of human diseases.
People read and listen to Veds but they did not understand
them properly. Then how will they acquire the status of fearless
which is necessary to know the Creator.
People follow the teachings of Veds blindly but they do
not use the knowledge. Therefore, they have adopted the
wrong path.
Ravidass says, without attaining the divine knowledge and
without using their wisdom, people cannot know about the
Ultimate Reality. Therefore, they are going towards hell. 

SHABAD-129
(Raag Sarang)
TUM KARHU KIRPA MOH SAI ||TEK|| SAWAS SAWAS TUJH NAAM SAMBHARUN, TUMHI
BHAINT MAMU MANN HARSAYI. TUMHU DAYAL KIRPAL KARUNANIDH TUMHEH
DEENBANDH RAGHURAYI. TUMHARI SARAN RAHO NISWASAR, BHARMAT FIROUN NA HOUN
HAR RAYI. TUMHARI ANUKAMP MAAN MADU CHHUTAI, RAM RASAYAN AMRIT PAYI. AISO
BUDH JACHIHU KARUNAMAIN, TUJH CHARAN TAJJ KITHU NA JAYI. CHARAN–SARAN
RAVIDASS RABARI, APNO JAAN LEHU UR LAYI ||
O God! You bless me. I recite Your holy name with my
every incoming and outgoing breath. After seeing Your pious
face, I feel extremely happy. O God! You are extremely
sympathetic, kind, compassionate and nurturer of the poor.
O God! As I have taken refuge in You, therefore, I have
not left the right path. I recite Your name; therefore, my pride
has vanished. I have achieved the nectar of Your name.
O God! My only desire is to achieve a place in Your holy
feet. Now I do not want to go to any other place except Your
feet. Ravidass says, O God! I have taken refuge in Your pious
feet. Please own me and hold me. 

SHABAD-130
(Raag Sarang)
CHAL MANN HAR CHATSAL PARRAOUN ||TEK|| GUR KI SAAT GIYAN KA ACHAR BISRAI TOUN
SEHAJ SAMADH LAGAOUN. PREM PAATI SURAT LEKHAN KARHIHOU RARAA MAMAA LIKHI
AANK DIKHYOU. YEAH BIDHI MUKAT BHAYE SANKADIK RIDAI BIDAAR PARKASH DIKHOUN.
KAGAD KANWAL MATT MAS KAR NIRMAL BIN RASNA NIS DIN GUN GAOUN. KAHAI RAVIDASS
RAM JAP BHAI SANT SAAKH DAI BOHAR NA AAOUN ||
O my mind! Let us go to the school of God, where spiritual
education will be imparted to you. In this school the baton of
Guru’s sermon protects you from going astray. Alphabet of
pure knowledge will be taught to you there. If by chance, the
pupil forgets the world of knowledge, then he assumes the
posture of deep and calm meditation.
In this school, for reading and writing, there is a Phatti i.e.
wooden-tablet of spiritual love and pen of mental awareness.
This pen writes on it the name of RAM, the omnipresent God.
By studying in such a school, many pupils including Sanak had
attained salvation. If you do not believe, then should I show
you the spiritual flame by dissecting my heart?
By making lotus-petal as paper and wisdom as the pure
ink, pupils write the name of God. Without using tongue, they
sing the songs in praise of God day and night.
Ravidass says, O brother! Saints are the testimony, that
whosoever has recited the holy name of God, he has attained
salvation. 

SHABAD-131
(Raag Sarang)
HAR SIMRAI SOI SANT BICHARO. AVAR JANAM BEKAM RAM BIN, KOT JANAM SOUN UPAR
BAAROU ||TEK|| HAR PAD VIMUKH KUTIL MAYIARAT, RAM CHARAN CHITHU NA SANAI.
JIN MANN MAANU HOYMAI BASHAI, TIH JAN SANT KAHO KIM MANNAI. KAPAT DHAMBH
PAR NINDA BURRO, SANT JANAM BHO KILWISH KAARI. JIYON BARIYA RUT BUND UDDHAI
MEH AAYI, MILAI SOI JAL KHARO. TA PARSANG SEEP SAWAAT NACHATAR, MOTI NIPJAT NEER
TAI NIAROU. KEH RAVIDASS MOH MADD TIAGO, RAM CHARAN MANN SANT BICHARO||
Those, who recite the holy name of God, are saints in
real sense, because without rendering the name of God the
whole life of a person becomes fruitless. Therefore, millions
of births can be sacrificed for the sake of that God. After
becoming attached to the worldly possessions, a man becomes
apostate towards the Creator and thus does not adopt the lotus
feet of God in his heart. Those who have pride and arrogance
in their minds, how we can accept them as saints. Such stupid
persons remain busy in committing fraud, resorting to treachery,
and false ostentation. But on the other hand, a saint takes
birth in order to eradicate sins and sufferings.
During rainy season, every drop of rain which falls into
the sea becomes alkaline. If the same drop of rain, during
good omen, falls into an open sea-shell, then it transforms
into a pearl.
Ravidass says, O man! Renounce your worldly attachments,
use of intoxicating drinks, and devote your mind to the lotus
feet of God in the company of saints. 

SHABAD-132
(Raag Jaisri)
SAB KUCH KARAT NA KAHOUN KUCH KAISE. GUN NIDHI BAHUT REHAT SUM JAISAI ||TEK||
DARPAN GAGAN ANIL ALAIP JAS. GANG JALDH PRATBIMB DEKH TAS. SAB AARAMBH AKAAM
ANEHA. BIDHI NIKHED KIYO ANEHKEHA. EIHAI PAD KEHAT SUNAT NAHIN AAVAI. KAHAI
RAVIDASS SUKRITI KAI PAVAI ||
How can we describe the God as non-performer, who is
responsible for all actions? He is the source of talent and
remains constant in various situations.
As the mirror, the sky, the air are unattached like this the
reflection of the God can be seen in the ocean.
The beginner is selfless, affectionless and unattached to
materialistic world. The God is being described through
different methods in so many forms.
Such supreme status can not be achieved only by saying
and listening but such supreme position can be occupied only
by good deeds, says Ravidass. 

SHABAD-133
(Raag Kanrra - Dopaad)
JA KAI RAM JI DHANI TA KAI KAH KI KAMI HAI. MANSA KO NATH MANORATH PURBAI SUKH
NIDHAN KI KAHA GANI HAI. KAWAN KAAJ KIRPAN KI MAYA KARAT PHIRAT APNI APNI HAI.
KHAYI NA SAKAI KHARACH NEH JAVAI JAYOUN BHUYANG SIR REHAT MANI HAI. JA KI RAAS
DHAVAR NEH AAVAI RAHA KETAKI MUKAT ANI HAI. RAKHVARAI KO CHAKAR SUDARSHAN
BIGHAN NA BIAPAI ROK CHINI HAI. SIV SANKADIK PAAR NA PAVAI MAIN BAPURAI KI KAUN
GINI HAI. JA KI PREET NIRANTAR HAR SO KAHAI RAVIDASS TAKI SADA BANI HAI ||
The man, who possesses the wealth of the true name of
God, does not face any deficiency in the life. The wealthiest
man on this universe is the God only, who is also the treasure
of comfort. He fulfils all the desires of his devotee and protects
him from all evils.
What is the use of that wealth, which is in the possession
of a miser man? The miser man remains happy while calling
the wealth as his own. As a snake protects his precious gem,
like this, the miser-man takes care of his wealth. As the miser
man cannot spend his money on eatables, like this the snake
cannot derive any benefit from the gem.
If a man recites the name of God, then the demon planets
like Saturn, Comet etc., hesitate to come to his sign of Zodiac.
Because the God is equipped with a mythical ring-shaped
weapon, and that weapon protects the devotees from demons.
The Transcendent one is infinite, inaccessible. Lord Shiv,
sage Sanak etc., could not realise the grandeur of God. Then
how can I, a poor man, perceive Him?
The man, who continuously remembers the God, nobody
can ever harm him, says Ravidass. 

SHABAD-134
(Raag Kanrra - Dopaad)
BHAGAT NA HOYI RE NA HOYI, JAB LAG TAN SUDH NA HOYI. BHAGAT NAHIN NACHAI AUR
GAVAI, BHAGAT NA BHU TAPH KINAHA. BHAGAT NAHIN SWAMI AUR SEBUG, JAB LAG
PARAM TAT NAHIN CHEENHA. BHAGAT NA GIAN JOG BAIRAGAI, BHAGAT NA KAHAIN
KAHAVAI. BHAGAT NA SUN MANNDAL GHAR SODHAI, BHAGAT NA KACHU DIKHAVAIN.
JAHAN JAHAN JAAYE TAHAN TAHAN BANDHAN, TRIVIDH TAP NA JAAYI| KAHAI RAVIDASS
TABAI SACH PAVAI, AAPA ULAT SAMAYI ||
O brother! So far the body of a person is not pure; he
cannot meditate upon God. Neither singing nor dancing is
worship. Undergoing intense austerities is not worship.
The worship is not to serve as a master or as a disciple.
The real worship is to know the Ultimate Reality. The worship
is not only to talk about divine and spiritual knowledge, or
asceticism or renunciation or non-attachment. The worship is
also not to fabricate stories. After attaining a state of mind
without feeling and thought thus reform oneself is not worship.
It is also not to exhibit miracles.
By adopting these methods of worship, wherever you go
or wander the bondage will tie you tightly and you will not be
able to save yourself from the three mythical hardships and
troubles. Such worship will also be helpless to eradicate these
sufferings.
Ravidass says when a devotee absorbs his soul with the
Ultimate Reality, only then he achieves the true God. 

SHABAD-135
(Raag Kanrra - Dopaad)
RE PAYEO RE RAM AAMI RAS ||TEK|| RAS JINI MAGAN HAIV RAHIYA, RARANKAR RASHAI NIT
RASNA. EIHU RAS PEEB RAM RAS BURROU, AAPU MAGAN REH HAIV DIN RAINA. LOK RAS
LAAG VISHAI VISH DEHI, BHNORAM BHOJAL NAHIN BAHNA. ABH ANTAR BHAJO NIJ AVIGAT,
EH UPAYE ANTAR BHO TARNA. CHINTAMANN LAL HATHAI JAI CHARRIYEH, HUVO UJAM
TIMIR NAHI REHNA. BHAJAI RAVIDASS RAM NIT RASNA, DULABH JANAM BIRTH NAHIN
GAWNA ||
O brother! I have attained the nectar of God’s name. Now
I want to recite the holy name of God and do not like to look
for any other syrup.
I want to take this supreme elixir day & night and want to
absorb myself in the name of God.
O mind, till now you remain engrossed in the worldly
extracts, due to this you have spent your life in sexual enjoyment
and evil deeds which have turned your body into poison,
therefore, you cannot swim the sea of existence.
If you want to swim across the sea of existence, then you
recite the name of Almighty in your inner-self. This is the only
way left for you.
O mind! If you recite the holy name of God, then you
will achieve the miraculous gem.
Therefore, Ravidass says, O man! Remember the name
of God so that your rare birth does not go waste. 

SHABAD-136
(Raag Kanrra - Dopaad)
DEKH MURKHTA TEHU MANN KI. RAM NAM KO CHADH ADHARO, GAH OTH CHUD TRIN KI
||TEK|| ABH ANTAR RAM NEH JANIYO, CHANHU DHUR BAN BAN KI. JA DIN EH HANSA UR
JAYI HAI, CHOR THATHARIA TAN KI. DHANU DARA MAH RAHHU LAPTANO, APHU NEH SUDH
VA CHAN KI. JAN RAVIDASS TIAGI JAG AASAA, LAHHU OTH HAR CHARNAN KI ||
O brother! See the foolishness of your mind, who after
renouncing the holy name of God, is seeking refuge in other
small demi-gods.
You are wandering hither and thither in order to find the
God, who is residing in yourself.
One day your soul will take off from your body like a
swan from the nest. People remain busy with wealth and women
and they have forgotten the day of death.
Ravidass says, everybody, after renouncing the false wishes
should take refuge in the lotus feet of God. 

SHABAD-137
(Aarti)
AARTI KAHAN LAIN KAR JOVAI. SEWAK DAS ACHAMBO HOVAI || TEK|| BAWAN KANCHAN
DEEP DHRAVAI. JARRH BAIRAG RE DRISTH NA AVAI. KOT BHANU JAKI SOBHA ROMAI. KAHAN
AARTI AGNI HOMAI. PAANCH TAT YEAH TIRGUNI MAYA. JO DEKHAI SO SAKAL UPAYA. KAHAI
RAVIDASS DEKHA HUM MAHIN SAKAL JOT ROM SUM NAHIN ||
O God! How long shall I go on watching such Aarti (prayer)
which is based on rituals? Your servant Ravidass is performing
a different kind of Aarti which is entirely unique and natural.
A devotee may get manufactured 52 lamps of gold and
adopts a life of non-attachment; even then he cannot have a
glimpse of God.
Millions of suns are engaged in glorifying Him, and then
what is the use of lighting such lamps and burning incense
before Him.
He has created this world with five elements, such aswater,
air, fire, earth and sky. The Maya has three characteristics
i.e. virtuous trait, evil and passion. The whole universe is a
creation of His maya.
Ravidass says, I have seen the God in my inner-self.
The light of the lamps lighted by the whole world is dim
than the light of one small hair of the God’s body. 

SHABAD-138
(Aarti)
SANT UTRAI AARTI DEV SIROMNIYEH. UR ANTAR TAHAN PAIS BIN RASNA BHNIYE ||TEK||
MANSA MANDIR MAHIN DHUP DHUPIYEH. PREM PREET KI MAL RAM CHARRIYEH. CHOUN
DISI DIBLA BAAL JAGMAG HAIV RAHIYO RE. JOT JOT SUM JOT JOT MIL RAHIYO RE. TAN
MANN AATAM BAAR SADA HAR GAYEAH. BHANAT JAN RAVIDASS TUM SARNA AAYEAH ||
Saints are involved in performing Aarti, a ritual prayer, to
the supreme God. The abode of that God is the mind of a
man. Therefore, one should remember the name of God from
his inner-self.
You should burn the incense and offer garland of your
true love in that temple which is situated in your mind.
The lamp of God’s name is burning brightly in all the four
directions and making the whole universe resplendent. The soul
is the integral part of God. O man! After offering your mind and
body to the feet of God you should sing the songs in praise of
Him. Ravidass says, O God! I have taken refuge in you. 

SHABAD-139
(Aarti)
GAGAN MANDAL MAIN AARTI KIJAI NAAD BIND EIKAI MEK KARIJAI. SUSMANN IND AMRIT
KUMBH DHRAVAI MANSA MALA PHOOL CHARRAVAI. GHEEV AKHANDA SOHAI BAATI TRIKUTI
JOT JALAI DIN RAATI. PAWAN SADHNA THAAL SAJIJAI TAMAI CHOMUKH MANN DHAR
LIJAI. RAV SAS HAATH GAHOU TINH MAHIN KHIN DAHINAI KHIN BAMAIN LAHIN. SEHAS
KANWAL SIGHASAN RAJAI ANHAD JHANJAN NIT HI BAJAI. EHUN BIDH AARTI SANCHI SEWA
PARAM PURIKH ALKH ABHEVA. KAHAI RAVIDASS GURDEV BATAVAI AISI AARTI PAR
LANGHAVAI ||
The Aarti of the supreme God may be performed in the
celestial region with such a glorious and magnificent style so
that the sound of the conch of God and the sound of the
breath of His creation absorb in each other.
The pitcher of nectar is lying in the middle of your
forehead, where all the three wind passages meet. One should
offer the garland of desires to Him.
You control the wind with the power of your meditation
and then place it in a decorated plate of Aarti. Then place the
four cornered lamp of mind in the plate. The lamp in which
the four wicks of ghee are burning uninterruptedly, like this
you prepare the decorative plate for performing Aarti. The
sun and the moon hold this plate in their hands and rotate the
plate right wards and left wards in front of the supreme God,
who is seated on a marvellous throne prepared with millions
of lotus flowers. The mystic sound of music is continuously
listening there.
The Aarti performed in this unique style is the only true
worship of the Lord, who is invisible and indistinguishable.
Ravidass says, such magnificent Aarti helps the devotee to
swim across the ocean of existence. 

SHABAD-140
(Aarti)
AARTI KARAT HARSHAI MANN MERO AAWAT CHIT TUV ROOP GHNERO ||TEK|| AJAR AMAR
ADOL ABHAIS NIRGUN RAHIT ROOP NEH REKHA. CHETAN SAT CHIT GHAN ANANDA
NIRVIKAR TEJ AMIT ABHEDA. ANUBH AJNAMA SARABGAY ANANTA ABHED ADAISH AVGAT
SUCHANDA. NAM KI BATI GHEEV AKHANDA EIK HI JOT JALAI BREHMANDA. ANAT BAR TOH
DHIYAN LAGAWA MUN JAN PAI PAR NEH PAWA. MANN BACH KARAM RAVIDASS DHIAWA
GHANTA JHALAR MANEH BAJAWAN ||
O God! While performing Aarti in front of You, I feel
happy. Your different shapes appear before me. You are stable
and do not become old. You are immortal and formless. You
are without attributes and do not put on any distinctive dress.
You are alert, conscious and intellect. You are pure, faultless
and sinless.
The God is unique, unborn and knows about everything.
He stays away from jealousy and enmity. He is independent
and free to do any thing, therefore, nobody knows about His
movements.
Ravidass says, in order to perform true Aarti, the wick of
the holy name of God and ghee of His name has been poured
in the lamp. Therefore, the lamp of God’s name is lighting day
and night.
Sages and saints have tried to concentrate upon
God’s name, but they cannot know the farthest limits of
His holy name.
Ravidass says, I meditate on God in my mind, in my speech
and in my deeds. Therefore, the celestial sound resounds in
my mind.

PADAI-1
SOHANG OAUNKAR NIRVIKAR AANAAD, AKHAND DHYAN SAROOP. AJAR AMAR AAD
KARNA, PURASH ATAL ANOOP. KIRPA KARTAI DAYAL JI, KATAI BANDHAN KAROOP. SAHIB
BAKHSHISH SAT SUN, DAS KAR NIJ ROOP. SACH NAM KO SIMAR KAR, JEEV BHAYE TAT ROOP.
RAVIDASS KAHAI BHAJ NAM KO, PAVAI SHUDH SAVROOP ||
The only one and one God is eternal and formless. One
should meditate on Him continuously. He is immortal and
extraordinary. He is compassionate. Due to His kindness all
ugly bondages are clipped. O mind! You listen carefully the
boons and blessings of the true God. The man, after
remembering the name of God is absorbed in Him. Ravidass
says a man, who meditates on God, his soul becomes pure. 

PADAI-2
GUR KI MURAT MANN VIKHAI, DHARO SO HUM DAM DHAYAN.NAM DAN ISHNAN KAR
DWARE, PAVAI MAAN. MANTAR JAP GUR HIRDAYE MAIN, MILAI SO NICHCHAL GAYAN.
BHUKH PIAS NA UTRAI, NAM BINA BHAGWAN. SATGUR SO NAHIN PAVYE, JO DIL MAHAI
SUAAN. MANN SACHA KIT BIDH BHAYO, KAR HAI KIYA BIAAN. JHOOTHA PALAN PAALTAI,
KAHO KAISAI KALIAAN. AAGIYA GUR KI CHIT DHAR, KAHAI RAVIDASS BIKHAN ||
After assuming the name of your Guru in your mind, you
meditate on God. He, who after taking bath, recites the holy
name of God, he is honoured at His court. Remember the
name of God and acquire knowledge. A man becomes fully
satisfied when he repeats the name of God. He cannot achieve
God whose mind is not fully absorbed in Him. How mind
becomes true? How you describe it? If you rely upon false
things then you will not get His blessings. Ravidass says, obey
the orders of Guru. 

PADAI-3
KAR EIKAGAR BARIT KO, SIMRAI NIT KARTAR. SAHIB KI SAB REET KA, KAUN KATHAI WISTAR.
TIS KI KUDRAT AT BARRI, JANAI KAUN VICHAR. SADGUN NIT HIRDAI BASAIN, MILSI THOR
AAPAR. GUR KI LAKHO DIYALATA, SATGUR KIYON PASAAR. KAHAI RAVIDASS BHAGWAN NE
DAS DIYAI JAG TAR ||
You recite the name of Creator with full concentration of
mind. No one can explain His greatness. Nobody knows about
His vast expansion. Only virtuous man can swim across the
ocean of existence. Elaborate the kindness of Guru. The God
has assumed gigantic appearance. The supreme and true God
has created and expanded this universe. Ravidass says, the
God has taken His devotees across the river of existence. 

PADAI-4
PRATHMAI SAT SAVROOP THA, VEH ABINASHI AAP. MADYAI VIAPAK HO RAHA, TIS KO TU
MANN JAP. ANT SAMAYE BHI RAHOGAI, NIRANKAR PARTAP. MANN BANI KAR KAI BHJAI,
MUCHIT KIL VISH PAP. DATA KARTA AAP HAI, DHARAT AAKASH VIAAP. MAHIMA BAHUT
BEANT HAI, SATGUR TAI HOI THAP. SOHANG NAM KI DHUN LAGGI, DIL KE ANDAR AAP.
KAHAI RAVIDASS VICHAR KE, JANO GUR PARTAP ||
The true God was present in the primal age. He is eternal.
You recite His name Who was present in the medieval age.
The formless God will also prevail in the end of this world.
Remember Him in the mind. He provides protection from sinful
deeds. The giver is the Creator, who is omnipresent. His
grandeur is infinite only. He can establish such greatness. With
every beat of my heart, I am reciting the name of God. Ravidass
says, after careful thought, that by the grace of Guru you
achieve the God, who is true. 

PADAI-5
JAAP JAPO TUM NAM KA, KAR SATGUR KI SEV. GAWAT HIRDAI NAM KE, BUJHAT NIJ GURDEV.
NAM SATYEH SANSAR MAIN, PDARATH JOOTH SA NEV. DUBDHA ANTAR KI TAJAY, NIT SATGUR
KAREV. AACHAR DHARO GUR REET KAI, MANGAL NITYEH VADHEV. KAHAI RAVIDASS VICHAR
KE, SAHIB DEVAN DEV||
You recite the name of God and perform service to Him.
The heart is singing songs in the praise of God. This is known
to the true Guru. Only the name of God is true all other things
are untrue. The company of virtuous and holy persons helps
in renouncing the doubts and uncertainty of the mind. Follow
the righteous path shown by the true Guru, which will bring
happiness. Ravidass says, after considering all aspects that God
is the only one in the universe, who has the quality to bestow. 

PADAI-6
ANTAR KAR GAVAI SADA, HIRDYEH KAR BHARPOOR. KHOTAI KARAM TAYAGASI, PAP BHAYEH
SAB DOOR . KAAG ROOP TAJJ HANS HO, VIKAR NA KARHO BHOOR. DEV DEH TUJH KO DAYI,
PARTAKSH JAAN JARUR. KATHNA KATHAI NA HAR MILAI, PAVAI KHOJAN NOOR. KAHAI
RAVIDASS VICHAR KE, RAHO BHAWAN HAJOOR ||
The man, who sings songs in the praise of God from his
inner-self, all his impure and sinful acts will be washed away.
O man! Renounce the demerits of a crow and acquire the
qualities of a swan and demit all immoral acts. You are given
the body of a deity, you should know this truth. You cannot
attain the God by talking only, but you can achieve the supreme
flame by exploring the truth. After full consideration, says
Ravidass, O man! You recite the name of God and reside in
His abode. 

PADAI-7
DEVAN WALA DET HAI, TIS KI KAR MANN AAS. SARAV YUGI PRAT PALIYA, TERI MITI NA
KHAHAS. ANTARYAMI JANTA, LEKHAI SAS GARAS. AAGYA GUR KI CHIT DHAR, SADHAN KO
RAKH PAAS. BAKHSHAN HARA BAKHSHASI, PRABHU KA HOI DAS. BHASHAN KAR GUR
NAM KO, ANTAR RAKH PIAAS. AMRIT VELA NAM SAT, CHAR YUGON MAIN BHAAS. SAT
SANTOSH DHARAN DHARO, KEHAT BHAYE RAVIDASS ||
God is the giver; therefore, O man! Have faith in Him.
He nourishes all. He possesses the faculty of knowing others’
thoughts. You obey the orders of Guru and meditate on Him.
He is the pardoner and will forgive your errors if you become
His disciple. You talk about the name of God but keep an
eager desire to achieve Him. In the ambrosial hour, you recite
the true name of God. The omnipresent God is the Master of
all four ages. Ravidass says, O man! You adopt the true name
of God and assume satisfaction.