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Aasaa:

Why bother to read the Simritees to a dog?

Why bother to sing the Lord's Praises to the faithless cynic? ||1||

Remain absorbed in the Lord's Name, Raam, Raam, Raam.

Do not bother to speak of it to the faithless cynic, even by mistake. ||1||Pause||

Why offer camphor to a crow?

Why give the snake milk to drink? ||2||

Joining the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, discriminating understanding is attained.

That iron which touches the Philosopher's Stone becomes gold. ||3||

The dog, the faithless cynic, does everything as the Lord causes him to do.

He does the deeds pre-ordained from the very beginning. ||4||

If you take Ambrosial Nectar and irrigate the neem tree with it,

still, says Kabeer, its natural qualities are not changed. ||5||7||20||