Padas 9-12 ] Incentives वखानना - cf. Marathi वाखाणणें । आदेस = ( 1 ) प्रणाम, आज्ञा, उपदेश; interjection like 9 ( 2 ) Used as an among the Nirgunpanthis. For the idea in the poem cf. असो ऐसे सकल ही गेले । परि एकचि राहिले । जे स्वरूपाकार झाले । आत्मज्ञानी ॥ — - रामदास.. Note :—1. Kabir sanctions no psychical re- search, no planchette. 2. In spite of the apparent contradiction, which seems to exist between the first two lines and the remaining portion of the poem, viz. that those who go away from this world never return to it and that everybody who has come into the world, (including all gods, goddesses, fakirs and so on, keeps on making a perpetual round, it seems that Kabir wants to suggest that, if one wishes to reach the goal of one's life, one has to do it now and in this world and that without the help of the Sadguru one cannot do it. 12 सात जनम पछितैहो - Kabir here makes mention of seven births after man's death:- (१) भृत; (२) सुआ; ( ३ ) बन्दर ( ४ ) बैल; ( ५ ) ऊँट ( ६ ) गदहा, (७) काँवा । काँटे पर का = काँटे के नोंक पर का । of सूच्यग्रमृत्तिका in Mahābhārat. मँडराने From मँडराना = मण्डलाकार उड़ना । - अधफड़ = आधे में फड़फड़ाकर - dropping down halfway 2 and fluttering while falling through the air. On the reading अधभर Or अधपर it would mean in the middle; half-way. -Pythagoras and the philosopher Jayatirtha are reported to have been oxen in their previous lives.
