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Those sinners ever wander in evil deeds, yet they call themselves
Aparas. (Kabir, Ibid, p. 196)
Thy mother was impure, thy father was also impure, and impure is the
fruit they have borne.
The unlucky people came impure, they departed and died impure.
Tell me, O Pandit, what place is pure
Where I may sit and take my food.
My tongue is impure, what it saith is impure, the ears and eyes are all
impure.
The impurity of the senses departeth not, O thou who art burning
with Brahmanical wrath.
Fire is also impure, water is impure, and impure the place where thou
sittest and cookest it.
With an impure laddle it is served up, and impure are those who sit
and eat it.
Impure thy cow-dung, impure thy cooking-square, and impure the lines
which mark it out.
Saith Kabir, that man is pure who hath obtained true knowledge.
(Kabir, Ibid, p. 273)
The calf hath defiled milk in the Cow’s udder by tasting it;
The bumble-bee hath spoiled the flowers, and the fish the water­
My mother, where shall I find anything to offer in God’s worship 1......
I cannot perform Thine adoration and worship according to Hindu
rites.
(Ravdas, Ibid, pp. 327-328)