Verse 1

Verse 2

Verse 3

Verse 4

Verse 1

My dear mind, when you chant japa on the mālā within your mind, why do you cease the actions of chanting japa externally? When one performs bhajan within the mind, and prema factually arises internally, then the external body also becomes pervaded by those symptoms. Therefore the body rocks and sways, while one incessantly turns their beads in chanting japa.

Verse 2

This improper form of mental chanting is the tendency of the pretentious so-called renunciants. As displayed in the fables of the crane and cat, such renunciation is extremely contemptible.xi Although such a trait is shown externally, whenever one gains an opportunity to enjoy women and wealth he continually indulges.

Verse 3

Inside such a man is merely an empty cavity of deceit. What does he have to express other than direct blasphemy of the process of executing external sādhana-bhakti? He thus makes a show of his own mental concoctions as being supposedly "superior" while he openly condemns the activities of the true sādhus.

Verse 4

O dear brother! Purify yourself both internally and externally. Stay engaged in chanting Hari-nāma, instead of simply babbling stubbornly with controversial attitudes. When you pass your life consumed with dry arguments, then Chāṅd Bāul becomes very sad.