One Oankar, the primal energy, realized through the grace of divine preceptor
The true Guru is inaccessible, without rancour and extraordinary.
Consider earth as the true abode of dharma.
Here karmas take care of the fruits i.e. one reaps what he sows.
He (the Lord) is the mirror in which the world can see its face reflected.
One would see the same face he will carry before the mirror.
The servants of God remain red faced and triumphant whereas the apostates keep their faces blackened.
If the disciple does not know (tell) about his guru, how could he get liberated.
Bound in chains, he is forced to walk alone on the way of the Yama, death.
In dilemma he stands and suffers hell.
Though he transmigrates in the eighty four lac species of life yet he does not meet the Lord.
Like the playing of gamble, he loses the invaluable stake of life in this game.
At the end (of life) he has jitters and lamentations but the time gone never returns.
The Guru prevaricator is similar to a girl who herself goes not to the father-in law's house and gives precepts to others.
Her husband never cares for her and she sings paeans of her happy married life.
It is such as the rat itself cannot enter the hole but roams tied winnowing tray to its waist.
It is such a person as not knowing even the mantra of a centipede lays his hand on a snake.
The person who facing towards sky shoots the arrow receives the arrow on his own face.
The apostate is yellow faced, frightened in both the worlds and repents.
The monkey knows no worth of the jewellary tied to its neck.
Even being in the food, the ladle does not know the taste of the dishes.
The frog always lives in mire but still knows not the lotus.
Having musk in its navel the deer runs around confused.
The cattle breeder puts the milk on sale but fetches home, the oil cakes and husk.
The apostate is a person basically gone astray and he undergoes the sufferings given by the Yama.
In the month of savan, the whole forest becomes green but javels, a prickly plant remains dry.
During rains every one feels delighted but the weaver is seen gloomy.
In the night all the pairs meet but for chakavi , that is the time of separation.
The conch remains empty even in the ocean and cries when blown.
The man gone astray will definitely be robbed by putting rope around his neck.
Similarly, the apostates go on sobbing in this world.
The jackal cannot reach the grapes and says disdainfully that grapes are sour.
The dancer knows no dance but says that the place is narrow.
Before a deaf person singing in measure Bhairav or Gaul is the same.
How a plover can fly equal to a swan.
The whole of the forest goes green in rainy season (sit-van) but akk, the wild plant of sandy region (calotropis procera) grows in the period of drought.
The apostate cannot have happiness like an abandoned woman.
How one could get across the water by catching hold of the tail of a sheep.
Friendship with a ghost is always a source of suspicious life.
The tree on a river bank cannot have the faith (that the river will not perish it).
How a woman married to a dead person could be said to be a suhagin, i.e one whose husband is alive.
How nectar could be obtained by sowing poison.
The friendship with an apostate brings the sufferings of the rod of Yama.
When moth, an Indian pulse is cooked over the fire some grains being hard remain uncooked.
This is not the fault of the fire. If one fruit out of a thousand go bad, it is not the fault of the tree.
It is not the fault of water that it will not rest on a hill.
If a sick person die from not observing the regimen prescribed for him, it is not the fault of the doctor.
If a barren woman have no offspring, it is her destiny and not the fault of her husband.
In the same way if a perverse man accept not the Guru's instruction, it is his own fault and not the Guru's.
The blind cannot see the moon though its light scatters all around.
The music loses not its melody if a deaf cannot understand it.
In spite of plenty of fragrance, the person without power of smell cannot enjoy the same.
The word resides in one and all, but the dumb cannot move his tongue (to pronounce it).
The true Guru is an ocean and the true servants receive treasures out of it.
The apostates get ',the shells only because their cultivation and labour is defective.
Jewels have come out of sea but still its water is brackish.
In the light of moon, the three worlds are seen, yet the stigma on moon persists.
The earth produces the corn but still alkaline earth is also there.
Siva, getting happy, grants boons to others but in his own home only ashes and begging bowl are found.
The powerful Hanuman can do a lot for others but has only a loincloth to wear.
Who can efface the words of destiny of the apostate.
The cow herds are there in the house of the master, the foolish person continues getting the churning sticks made for his own home.
The horses are with the merchants and the foolish person roams around purchasing the whips.
Foolish person creates stampede at his home only by seeing the harvest of others around the threshing floor.
The gold is with the gold merchant but the foolish calls for the goldsmith at his own home for preparing the jewellery.
He has no place at home, but goes on boasting outside.
The apostate is unstable like the speedy cloud and goes on telling lies.
When the butter is churned and taken away, the butter milk (lassi) is abandoned.
When the juice of sugarcane is extracted out, nobody touches the bagasse.
When the fast colour of Rubia munjista is taken away then nobody cares for it even worth a penny.
When the fragrance of flowers is exhausted, no more shelter they get.
When the atman separates from the body, no companion of the body remains.
It is clear to everyone that the apostate is like drywood (which can only be pushed into fire).
The water is drawn out of well only when the pitcher is tied from the neck (with rope).
The cobra does not happily give away the jewel in the head (it gives only after getting killed).
The deer also gives musk only after its death.
Oil can be extracted from sesame seeds without pain at Ghani.
The kernel of coconut can be got only when its mouth is broken.
The apostate is such an iron that can be given desired shape only with the strokes of hammer.
The foolish would say the poison sweet and the angry person a happy one.
To the extinguished lamp he says the enlarged one and a killed goat to him is dressed one.
To burnt he would say the cooled one: the 'gone' for him is 'come' and the 'come' one for him is eloped one i.e. if something sets in the eye, the eye is said to be soaring and if a widow settles in someone's house by marrying him, she is said to have elo
To moron he would say simple, and his all talks will be contrary to normal.
To the ruining person, the foolish would say that he is leaving everything of his own sweet will.
Such people are like the mother of a thief who weeps hiding in a corner (lest she is detected and possibility of catching hold of her son increases).
If someone enters a room full of soot his face is sure to be blackened.
If seed be sown in the alkaline field, that will go useless.
If somebody swings in a broken swing, he will fall and kill himself.
If a man who does not know how to swim, leans on the shoulders of another equally ignorant, how shall he cross a deep river?
Move not with him who sets fire to his own house and then goes to sleep.
Such is the society of the deceitful and apostates wherein man is ever in fear of his life.
(It is said that) The killing of brahmin, cow and the man of one's own family is a deadly sin.
The drunkards gamble and look at the wives of others.
The thieves and decoits loot other's wealth.
These all are treacherous, ungrateful, sinners and killers.
If such persons are gathered in infinite number;
Even they all are not equal to the single hair of the apostate.
If one goes to the Ganges, Yamuna, Godavari and Kurukshetr.
Mathure, Mayapuri, Ayodhya , Kasi, Kedarnath are also visited.
The door of Gomati, Sarasvati, Prayag. Gaya is too approached.
All sort of rectations, penances, continences, yajns, homs are practised and all the gods are eulogised.
The eyes putting on earth if even the three worlds are visited.
Even then the sin of apostasy never fades out.
Many are engrossed in myriad of tastes, and many are the kings of the forests.
Many are the places, whirlwinds, mountains and the ghosts.
Many are the rivers, streams and the deep tanks.
The sky has many a star and in the nether world innumerable are the serpents.
Many are wandering confused in the labyrinth of world.
Without one true Guru all else are perplexities.
(Babu = thing, father. Dhad = drum. Dhukha = worry, anxiety, worry. Berne says Bemukha - Bemukha.)
A guest of many houses remains hungry.
On the loss of common father of many, scant are the weeping and mental anxieties.
When many drummers strike a drum, no one is pleased with the discordant voices.
How could a crow wandering from forest to forest be happy and honourable.
As a prostitute's body suffers from having many lovers,
Those who worship others than the Guru are unhappy in their apostasy.
With the sound of the seive it is vain to cause the camel to get up.
Frightening the elephant with the clappings of the hands is as futile
As burning of the lamp before a Väsuki cobra (in the hope that it will run away).
If rabbit looking into the eyes wishes to frighten the lion (it is nothing but a deathwish).
Small water conduit pipes can not be equal to the ocean.
Like ghost, the apostate being nothing goes on expressing his ego.
Without husband a woman cannot enjoy pleasures of bed.
If the son disobeys the parents, he is considered a bastard.
If a merchant does not keep his word given to his banker, he loses his faith.
Take not arms against your master.
The falsehood can never reach the truth even if hundred excuses are made.
One should not behave stubbornly before the people wearing earrings (because they are most obdurate ones).