पहले अगन बिरहा की

पहले अगन बिरहा की, पाछे प्रेम की प्यास | कहे कबीर तब जानिए, नाम मिलन की आस |

Understand and Unravel Liberation and hope for it only while you are living;for if you are not able to cut the noose of karma(actions) in this life,the hope for Liberation from the cycle of birth and death dies.

Expln: If we are able to cut free from the noose of Karma(actions) we can escape the cycle of birth and death.It is the Karma and its causes and results that keep us diverted from reality and engaged in fruitless pursuits.Kabir emphasises the actual utility of the human birth.Other living beings do not attain liberation, only human beings can, as human birth is primarily designed to enable the liberation of all prakriti or non-God existence and its attaining to the one GOD, the one and only seer and the only chetan or universal absolute consciousness.So human birth should not be wasted and should be utilized for the purpose it came into existence for---realisation of God.Kabir makes the esoteric words of Upanishadas intelligible to the unread minds.Here it may be added that Science is yet to accept and prove the Law of Karma and cycle of birth and death but they form part of the central doctrine of the vedas and upanishads.

Translation by Arvind Mishra