Translation: by Kartar Singh Duggal - It’s all in One contained. Understand the One and forge the rest. Shake off your ways of an apostate pest Leading to the grave to hell and to torture Rid your mind of dreams of disaster This is how is the argument maintained It’s all in One contained. What use is it bowing one’s head? To what avail has prostrating led? Reading Kalma you make them laugh Absorbing not a word while the Quran you quaff The truth must be here and there sustained It’s all in One contained. Some retire to the jungles in vain Others restrict their meals to a grain Misled they waste away unfed And come back home half-alive, half-dead Emaciated in the ascetic postures feigned It’s all in One contained Seek your master, say your prayers and surrender to God. It will lead you to mystic abandon And help you to get attuned to the Lord It’s the truth that Bulleh has gained It’s all in One contained - _______________________________________________________ - Another Translation: by Suman Kashyap - At this one point,all talk ends. Hold tight to this point, forget your calculations, Leave the miserable state of unbelief, Do not torment yourself with the fear of death and hell, For these are imaginary fears. Only into such a house will the truth enter. At this one point, all talk ends. For no reason you abrade your forehead on the ground, You display reverence at the mehraab, You recite the Kalma to entertain a listener. But knowledge does not enter your heart. Can the truth ever remain hidden? At this one point, all talk ends. Many return from Mecca as hajjis, Blue shawls across their shoulders. They profit from the merit earned by haj. Who can admire such behavior? Can the truth ever remain hidden? At this one point, all talk ends. Some withdraw to the forest, Eat a single grain a day. Bereft of understanding, they exhaust the body, And return home in bad shape, Their life sucked dry with useless fasting and prayer. At this one point, all talk ends Hold fast to your murshid Become a devotee of all creation, Intoxicated, carefree, Without desire, indifferent to the world. Let your heart be fully clean. Bulla asks, can the truth then be stopped? At this one point,all talk ends -
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