Re man syana hoja gher liya re tene tota (2x)

O mind, become wise. You have experienced a great loss.

Sacha soda kari le re tera, karja ho gya mota (2x) . . .
Re man (etc.)

Do the true merchandise – your debt has grown large.

Garbh vas me kirar kiya Satguru ne phanda chudaya (2x)
Bal avastha khel kud me jawani me mad chaya (2x)
Jawani bit budapa a gya sir dhar liya pap barota . . .
Re man (etc.)

In the womb you promised the Satguru, and He liberated you.
As a child you played and jumped.
In your youth the bad thoughts and deeds came over you.
After passing through youth, old age has come, and you have carried this bag of sin on your head.

Kodi kodi karke Maya jodi jodya tha mal bathera (2x)
Na kabhi aya Sant sharan me tene kiya tha mera mera (2x)
Chidiya jesa ren basera ant khak me leteya...
Re man (etc.)

You collected Maya by collecting pennies, and you never came in the Saint's shelter.
You have done “mine - mine”.
You lived in a temporary home like birds, and in the end, lay down in the dust.

Kabhi kabhi re man sadhu ban jae lamba shankh bajata (2x)
Joli khapar dal kakhme ghar ghar alakh jagata (2x)
Phir mang mang kar khata re bina bhajan paraya rota...
Re man (etc.)

Now and then, O mind, you became a sadhu, and blew the conch.
Carrying the begging bowl in a bag, putting on ashes, at every, home you aroused others in God's Name.
Then, after begging, you ate others' food without meditating.

Ja mandir me tal bajave lamba tilak lagake (2x)
Aap ghade use ape puje pathar ka Ram banake (2x)
Dhan puja da kha kha murkh ban gya sanda jhota...
Re man (etc.)

After going in the temple and ringing the cymbal - after getting the long Tilak mark -
you make yourself worship the stone idol of Ram that you've made.
Swallowed by the worship of money, O fool, you have become a young bull (useless except for reproduction).

In this bhajan the Sangat sings only the Chorus.