A temple roof cannot stay up without rafters,
So without Nam how can one cross the ocean?
Without a vessel water cannot be kept;
So without a saint, Man cannot be saved from doom.
Woe to him who thinks not of God,
Whose mind and heart remain absorbed in plowing
The field of senses.


Without a plowman land cannot be tilled,
Without a thread Jewels cannot be strung,
Without a knot, the sacred tie cannot be made;
So without a saint, Man cannot be saved from doom.


A child cannot be born without father and mother,
clothes cannot be washed without water,
There can be no horseman without a horse;
So without a Master, None can reach the court of Law.


Without music, There can be no wedding;
Rejected by her husband, A bad woman suffers misery;
So man suffers without a saint.
Says kabir, my friend, only one thing attain;
Become a Gurumukh, that you not die again.