BULLA,KI JAANA MAIN KAUN...ESSENCE OF DIS SUFI KALAAM..

Bulla, ki jaana main kaun --Baba Bulleh Shah asks "Bulla, who knows who I am!"
Bulla, ki jaana main kaun --Baba Bulleh Shah asks "Bulla, who knows who I am!"

Na main moman vich maseetan --I am neither a believer (moman) in a mosque (maseet)
Na main vich kufar dian reetan --I do not believe in false (kufar) ceremonies and rituals (reetan)Na main pakan vich paleetan-- I am not making purity (pak) impure (paleet)
Na main andar bed kitaban --I am not inside any secrets (bed-VED) in holy books (kitaaban)
Na main rehnda bhang sharaban --I do not achieve him by getting drunk (bhang) in wine (sharaab)
Na main rehnda mast kharaban-- I do not see him when intoxicated (mast) by some drug
Na main shadi na ghamnaki-- I am not in joy (shadi) nor in sorrow (ghamnaki)
Na main vich paleetan pakeen --Neither in clean (pak) nor unclean (paleet)
Na main aabi na main khaki --I am not water (aabi), I am not earth (khaki)
Na main aatish na paun --I am not fire (aatish) or air (paun, pawan)
Bulla ki jaana main kaun-- Baba Bulleh Shah asks "Bulla, who knows who I am!"

Na main arabi na Lahori-- I am not an arab, I am not from Lahore (Baba Bulle Shah spent a lot of time in Lahore, he believed in one world and feels he belongs to His world and not to Lahore which is a man made boundary)
Na main hindi shehar Nagaori --I am niether Indian (Hindi here refers to Indian, from Hindustan) and nor from Nagaor (a city in Rajasthan, near Alwar)
Na hindu na turk pashauri --I have no religion - neither Hindu nor Turk (Baba Bulleh Shah was born in Islamic family of Turks)
Na main bhet mazhab de paya-- I did not understand the secrets (bhet) of religions (mazhab) that are preached
Na main aadam hawwa jaya-- I did not bore (jaya) Adam (adam) or Eve (Hawwa)
Na koi apna naam dharaya --I did not kept a name or affliated myself or did not ask people to follow that name
Avval-aakhar aap nu jana-- He is the first (Avval) and last (aakhar) and with no relgion
Na koi dooja hor pacchana-- I do not recoganize any other (referring to the saints and prophets)Maithon na koi hor syana -- no one is more wise or intelligent than me
Bulle Shah Kharha hai kaun-- Baba Bulle Shah asks himself "Who is this standing Bulleh Shah, who is asking me who am I?"
Bulla ki jaana main kaun---Bulleh Shah, I do not know who I am.
Na main moosa na phraun--I am not a saint like Moses (moosa), nor I am King like Pharaoh (phraun)
Na main jaagan na vich saun--I am not in wakefulness or sleep
Na main aatish na paun-- I am not fire (aatish) or air (paun, pawan)
Na main rehnda vich Nadaun--Nor do I live in Nadaun.
Na main baithen na vich paun--I am not in stillness (baithen), not in movement (paun, here the wind or pawan or paun is used to explian movement, like wind blows)
Bulle Shah Kharha hai kaun --Baba Bulle Shah asks himself "Who is this standing Bulleh Shah, who is asking me who am I?"
Bulla, ki jaana main kaun --Baba Bulleh Shah asks "Bulla, who knows who I am!" AUM.