raajay indar samsar garih aasan bin har bhagat kahhu kih laykhai. ||1||
na beechaari-o raajaa raam ko ras.
jih ras an ras beesar jaahee. ||1|| rahaa-o.
jaan ajaan bha-ay ham
baavar soch asoch divas jaahee.
indree sabal nibal bibayk buDh parmaarath parvays nahee. ||2||
kahee-at aan achree-at
an kachh samajh na parai apar maa-i-aa.
kahi ravidaas udaas daas mat parhar kop karahu jee-a da-i-aa. ||3||3||
I obtained this precious human life as a reward for my past actions, but without discriminating wisdom, it is wasted in vain.
Tell me, without devotional worship of the Lord, of what use are mansions and thrones like those of King Indra? ||1||
You have not considered the sublime essence of the Name of the Lord, our King;
this sublime essence shall cause you to forget all other essences. ||1||Pause||
We do not know what we need to know, and we have become insane. We do not consider what we should consider; our days are passing away.
Our passions are strong, and our discriminating intellect is weak; we have no access to the supreme objective. ||2||
We say one thing, and do something else; entangled in endless Maya, we do not understand anything.
Says Ravi Daas, Your slave, O Lord, I am disillusioned and detached; please, spare me Your anger, and have mercy on my soul. ||3||3||