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Aasaa:

As long as the oil and the wick are in the lamp, everything is illuminated.

But when the oil is burnt, the wick goes out, and the mansion becomes desolate. ||1||

O mad-man, no one will keep you, for even a moment.

Meditate on the Name of that Lord. ||1||Pause||

Tell me, whose mother is that, whose father is that, and which man has a wife?

When the pitcher of the body breaks, no one cares for you at all. Everyone says, "Take him away, take him away!" ||2||

Sitting on the threshold, his mother cries, and his brothers take away the coffin.

Taking down her hair, his wife cries out in sorrow, and the swan-soul departs all alone. ||3||

Says Kabeer, listen, O Saints, about the terrifying world-ocean.

This human suffers torture and the Messenger of Death will not leave him alone, O Lord of the World. ||4||9|| Dho-Thukay