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Ravidas – from the Adi Granth 26
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Ravidas – from the Adi Granth 26
[extracted from Songs of the Saints of India – translated by Professor John Stratton Hawley and Professor Mark Juergensmeyer]
The day it comes, it goes;
whatever you do, nothing stays firm.
The group goes, and I go;
the going is long, and death is overhead.
What! Are you sleeping? Wake up, fool,
wake to the world you took to be true.
The one who gave you life, daily feeds you, clothes you;
inside every body, he runs the store.
So keep to your prayers, abandon ‘me’ and ‘mine’,
now’s the time to nurture the name that’s in the heart.
Life has slipped away. No one's left on the road,
and in each direction the evening dark has come.
Madman, says Ravidas, here's the cause of it all-
it’s only a house of tricks. Ignore the world.