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Bullehya dharmsala dharvai rehndey,

Thakur dwarey thug,

Vich maseetan kusateye rehndey,

Ashak rehan alag

Bullehya raiders reside in dharmsala,

Thugs in Hindu temples;

The cunning live in mosques,

But the lovers dwell apart.

Baba Bulleh Shah had little faith in the priestly class, which promised people salvation. Their personal lives were often far from genuinely religious. They exploited simple people for personal gains. Baba Bulleh Shah clearly saw this through their tricks:

Mullan, kazi rah batavan, dein bharam di pheri.

Eh tan thug jagat dey, jeha lavan jaal chauferi

Karam shara dey dharm batavan, sangal pavan pairi

The Mullas and the kazi mislead into a maze of superstition.

These thugs of the world spread their net wide,

Claiming to preach shara but they put shackle in their feet.

The Hindu priests are no different.

Bahman aan jajman daraey

Pittar peerh dos bharam doraey.

Apey das key jatan karaey

pooja shuroo karai eiy

The Brahmins frighten their patrons into false belief that their ancestors are in pain.

The remedy too they prescribe, thus the Puja begin.

The learned, too, are of no avail in our search for God. They befool others to grind their own axe and line their purses:

Parh parh shekh mushaekh kahavein,

Ultey masley gharon banavein,

Beaklan noon lut lut khavein,

Ultey sidhey karein karaar,

Imon bas Karin o yaar

You claim to be shaikh mushaikh for your scholarship

but you create new problems to gull fools out of their money.

You make false promises.

Away with your learning, O friend !

The priests and the scholars cannot lead us to God, but they lead us to places of worship of their respective religions. Can we find God there? Baba Bulleh Shah’s answer is categorical ‘No’:

Na khuda maseetey labda

Na khuda vich kaabey

Na khuda Quara kitaban

Na khuda namazey

Na khuda main tirath ditha

Aivein panidey jhagey

God, I could find

Neither in mosque nor in kaaba;

Neither in Quaran nor in namaz.

God, neither did I see

In distant Hindu shrines;

Pilgrimage was just a waste of time.

Prayer, pilgrimages and repeated recitation of scripttures often prove fruitless in our search of God:

Ved quarana parh parh thakey

Sajdey kardian ghas gae mathey

Na rabb tirth na rabb makkey

Jis paia tis noor anwaar

Veds and Quran I’m tired of reciting,

My brow is worn out by prostrating,

God, I couldn’t find in Mecca or Hindu shrines.

The one who found (God)

Is aglow with light Divine.

Har mazhab vich oh disda

Under bahar jalwa jisda

I see the same God in each religion,

The One lives without and within.

May read more at https://www.iuscanada.com/journal/archives/2004/j0602p28.pdf

@Shri KIran kumar

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