The Sixer !! - Guru

‘When I had ego, guru was not there. I attained a guru, ego vanished. The path of love is narrow. It cannot accommodate both ego and God in one place ! This is the doha of Kabir.

1. What can I give in return,so great is the Name of  Ram?

    What gift of mine could please the Guru?

    The wish remains [unfulfilled] in my heart

2. There is no relative closer than the Satguru;

    No bounty equal to spiritual awakening,

    There is no greater Benefactor than Hari;

    No community equal to that of Hari's devotees.

3. If the Guru be blind the disciple is born blind:

   When the blind lead the blind both fall into well!

4. I was drowning but I was saved

    when the Guru's wave rose up;

    I saw the vessel fall to pieces

    and I myself jumped clear!

5. To find the Guru is a great boon: without Him, you are lost,

    As the moth attracted by the lamp's flame

    falls into it in full knowledge! .

6. Maya is the Lamp, man is the moth,

    circling arround [the flame], he falls:

   Says Kabir, thanks to the Guru's wisdom; a few are saved.