Aarti, translated in this poem as 'worship', is a ritualistic form of offering made to an idol in a spirit of invocation, devotion and self-effacement. Usually leaves from five different plants, flowers or fruits of five different trees, and a brass or earthenware lamp are placed in a salver which the devotee circles in front of the idol, ringing a bell all the while. Kabir, rejecting such formal aarti,calls upon the devotee to undertake that aarti which not only can emancipate him but also liberate all the three worlds, physical, astral and causal. Kabir tells the devotee to make simran or repetition of the five words the five leaves,and the five melodies of the Shabd within, the five flowers; divine knowledge,the lamp, and the sound of Shabd, the bell that the devotee rings. As a final offering in the aarti, instead of bowing his head before the idol, Kabir tells the devotee to lay down his body, mind and ego at the feet of the Lord.

Perform that worship which has the power
To redeem all the three worlds.
Take your self and put it as an offering
For the One who is the storehouse,
The source and the essence of Light.
With the five leaves of simran,
With the five flowers of Shabd,
Worship Him who has not a whit of maya,
Who is without an equal,
Who is One, without a second.
Lay your body and mind,
Lay even your head at his feet,
That his Light may appear within;
That your soul, with love,
May merge into his Light.
Hold the lamp of divine knowledge,
Ring the bell of the Sound within
And see the Being who is supreme,
Whose command all gods and deities obey.
Through such worship, the primal Light
Has flooded my entire being,
And Kabir, O beloved Lord,
Has forever become thy slave.

K.G., p. 168:403
Aisi ārati tribhuvan tārai