Kabir Poems/Bhajans/Vachanvali in Kannnada

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Hi Any1 got any info abt a cassette of kabirs Bhajans in kannada, by

Swami Purushottamanda (I guess).

Please let me know...

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, "Pradeep" <p_r_a_d_e_e_p_7>

wrote:

> Hi Any1 got any info abt a cassette of kabirs Bhajans in kannada,

by

> Swami Purushottamanda (I guess).

> Please let me know...

 

Hi Pradeep:

 

Was looking through the archives here and saw your request for info

on Kabir's bhajans. I found some online this morning. See below.

 

Naamaste,'

 

Jame

 

Kabir's Raag Prabhaati: Read the Translation and Hear it Chanted

 

*JPG IMAGE: Guru Kabir Mandala:

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*JPG IMAGE: Kabir, the "Weaver" of God's Name:

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*Real Audio and MP3's: Hymns (Banis) of Guru Kabir Online:

(The Second hymn listed at this keertan website, Raag Prabhaati, is

translated into English below.)

Kabir's Raag Prabhaati is ten minutes, eleven seconds in length:

http://keertan.waheguroo.com/?Query=kabir&swhat=0

 

BIBHAAS, PRABHAATEE, THE WORD OF DEVOTEE KABEER JEE:

 

Guru Kabir,

Pages 1349 and 1350 of the Khalsa Consensus Translation

of the Adi Granth

at Sikhs dot Org:

http://www.sikhs.org/english/frame.html

 

Page 1349

 

My anxious fears of death and rebirth have been taken away. The

Celestial Lord has shown His Love for me. || 1 || The Divine Light

has dawned, and darkness has been dispelled. Contemplating the Lord,

I have obtained the Jewel of His Name. || 1 || Pause || Pain runs

far away from that place where there is bliss. The jewel of the mind

is focused and attuned to the essence of reality. || 2 || Whatever

happens is by the Pleasure of Your Will. Whoever understands this,

is intuitively merged in the Lord. || 3 || Says Kabeer, the residues

of my sinful mistakes have been obliterated. My mind has merged into

the Lord, the Life of the World. || 4 || 1 || PRABHAATEE: If the

Lord Allah lives only in the mosque, then to whom does the rest of

the world belong? According to the Hindus, the Lord's Name abides in

the idol, but there is no truth in either of these claims. || 1 || O

Allah, O Raam, I live by Your Name. Please show mercy to me, O

Master. || 1 || Pause || The God of the Hindus lives in the southern

lands, and the God of the Muslims lives in the west. So search in

your heart - look deep into your heart of hearts; this is the home

and the place where God lives. || 2 || The Brahmins observe twenty-

four fasts during the year, and the Muslims fast during the month of

Ramadaan. The Muslims set aside eleven months, and claim that the

treasure is only in the one month. || 3 || What is the use of

bathing at Orissa? Why do the Muslims bow their heads in the mosque?

If someone has deception in his heart, what good is it for him to

utter prayers? And what good is it for him to go on pilgrimage to

Mecca? || 4 || You fashioned all these men and women, Lord. All

these are Your Forms. Kabeer is the child of God, Allah, Raam. All

the Gurus and prophets are mine. || 5 || Says Kabeer, listen, O men

and women: seek the Sanctuary of the One. Chant the Naam, the Name

of the Lord, O mortals, and you shall surely be carried across. || 6

|| 2 || PRABHAATEE: First, Allah created the Light; then, by His

Creative Power, He made all mortal beings. From the One Light, the

entire universe welled up. So who is good, and who is bad?

 

Page 1350

 

|| 1 || O people, O Siblings of Destiny, do not wander deluded by

doubt. The Creation is in the Creator, and the Creator is in the

Creation, totally pervading and permeating all places. || 1 || Pause

|| The clay is the same, but the Fashioner has fashioned it in

various ways. There is nothing wrong with the pot of clay - there is

nothing wrong with the Potter. || 2 || The One True Lord abides in

all; by His making, everything is made. Whoever realizes the Hukam

of His Command, knows the One Lord. He alone is said to be the

Lord's slave. || 3 || The Lord Allah is Unseen; He cannot be seen.

The Guru has blessed me with this sweet molasses. Says Kabeer, my

anxiety and fear have been taken away; I see the Immaculate Lord

pervading everywhere. || 4 || 3 || PRABHAATEE: Do not say that the

Vedas, the Bible and the Koran are false. Those who do not

contemplate them are false. You say that the One Lord is in all, so

why do you kill chickens? || 1 || O Mullah, tell me: is this God's

Justice? The doubts of your mind have not been dispelled. || 1 ||

Pause || You seize a living creature, and then bring it home and

kill its body; you have killed only the clay. The light of the soul

passes into another form. So tell me, what have you killed? || 2 ||

And what good are your purifications? Why do you bother to wash your

face? And why do you bother to bow your head in the mosque? Your

heart is full of hypocrisy; what good are your prayers or your

pilgrimage to Mecca? || 3 || You are impure; you do not understand

the Pure Lord. You do not know His Mystery. Says Kabeer, you have

missed out on paradise; your mind is set on hell. || 4 || 4 ||

PRABHAATEE: Hear my prayer, Lord; You are the Divine Light of the

Divine, the Primal, All-pervading Master. The Siddhas in Samaadhi

have not found Your limits. They hold tight to the Protection of

Your Sanctuary. || 1 || Worship and adoration of the Pure, Primal

Lord comes by worshipping the True Guru, O Siblings of Destiny.

Standing at His Door, Brahma studies the Vedas, but he cannot see

the Unseen Lord. || 1 || Pause || With the oil of knowledge about

the essence of reality, and the wick of the Naam, the Name of the

Lord, this lamp illluminates my body. I have applied the Light of

the Lord of the Universe, and lit this lamp. God the Knower knows.

|| 2 || The Unstruck Melody of the Panch Shabad, the Five Primal

Sounds, vibrates and resounds. I dwell with the Lord of the World.

Kabeer, Your slave, performs this Aartee, this lamp-lit worship

service for You, O Formless Lord of Nirvaanaa. || 3 || 5 ||

 

A good translation of the words of Kabir contained in the Adi Granth

is, "Songs of Kabir in the Adi Granth",

By Nirmal Das, SUNY Press, NY

 

Websites on Kabir Books:

http://www.sirreadalot.org/islam/sufkabirR.htm

http://www.dabase.org/kabir.htm

 

Kabir Association Website with online

shabdas and ramainis of Sant Kabir:

http://www.members.shaw.ca/kabirweb

 

The Bijak of Guru Kabir -- Book Review:

SantMatFellowship/message/1979

SantMatFellowship/message/1985

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