नाइकु एकु बनजारे पाच ॥बरध पचीसक संगु काच ॥नउ बहीआं दस गोनि आहि ॥कसनि बहतरि लागी ताहि ॥ १ ॥*nāiku ēku banajārē pāca ॥**baradha pacīsaka saṁgu kāca ॥**nau bahīāṁ dasa gōni āhi ॥**kasani bahatari lāgī tāhi ॥ 1 ॥*मोहि ऐसे बनज सिउ नहीन काजु ॥जिह घटै मूलु नित बढै बिआजु ॥रहाउ ॥*mōhi aisē banaja siu nahīna kāju ॥**jiha ghaṭai mūlu nita baḍhai biāju ॥rahāu ॥*सात सूत मिलि बनजु कीन ॥करम भावनी संग लीन ॥तीनि जगाती करत रारि ॥चलो बनजारा हाथ झारि ॥ २ ॥*sāta sūta mili banaju kīna ॥**karama bhāvanī saṁga līna ॥**tīni jagātī karata rāri ॥**calō banajārā hātha jhāri ॥ 2 ॥*पूंजी हिरानी बनजु टूट ॥दह दिस टांडो गइओ फूटि ॥कहि कबीर मन सरसी काज ॥सहज समानो त भरम भाज ॥ ३ ॥ ६ ॥*pūṁjī hirānī banaju ṭūṭa ॥**daha disa ṭāṁḍō gaiō phūṭi ॥**kahi kabīra mana sarasī kāja ॥**sahaja samānō ta bharama bhāja ॥ 3 ॥ 6 ॥*
In plain words
One master, and five pedlars. Twenty-five bullocks with them, and the company is brittle as glass. There are nine poles and ten sacks, and seventy-two straps are tied to them. I want nothing to do with a trade like that, where the principal shrinks and the interest grows every day. *(refrain)* Seven threads come together and the trade is set up. He took karam and his old leanings along for company. Three toll collectors pick a quarrel with him, and the pedlar walks off shaking out empty hands. The capital is gone, the trade is broken, and the pack train has scattered in ten directions. Says Kabīr, mind, your work will yet prosper: settle into sahaj, and the delusion runs away. A *banjārā* is a pedlar who drives his goods from market to market; the *ṭāṃḍā* is his train of loaded bullocks.