Kabir Verse तीरथ गए तो क्या हुआ, मन का मैल न जाए मीन सदा जल में रहे, धोए बास न जाए Meaning What is gained by pilgrimage if the dirt of the mind does not leave? A fish lives in water always, yet its smell does not wash away. Commentary Kabir mocks external holiness: You can bathe in sacred rivers endlessly. But if ego remains, nothing changes. The fish is always in water. Yet it is not purified. So too the ritualist: Always in religion, yet untouched by truth.