KABIR
I am not a Hindu,
Nor a Muslim am I!
I am this body, a play
Of five elements; a drama
Of the spirit dancing
With joy and sorrow.”
Nor a Muslim am I!
I am this body, a play
Of five elements; a drama
Of the spirit dancing
With joy and sorrow.”
“If you don't break your ropes while you're alive do you think ghosts will do it after?”
There's a moon in my body, but I can't see it!
A moon and a sun.
A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can't hear it!”
A moon and a sun.
A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can't hear it!”
“I do not quote from the scriptttures;
I simply see what I see.”
I simply see what I see.”
“When the bride is one
with her lover,
who cares about
the wedding party?”
with her lover,
who cares about
the wedding party?”
“Be strong then, and enter into your own body;
there you have a sold place for your feet.
Think about it carefully!
Don't go off somewhere else!”
there you have a sold place for your feet.
Think about it carefully!
Don't go off somewhere else!”
The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that
comes, the petal falls.”
comes, the petal falls.”
“Do not go to the garden of flowers!
O friend! go not there;
In your body is the garden of flowers.
Take your seat on the thousand petals of the
lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.”
O friend! go not there;
In your body is the garden of flowers.
Take your seat on the thousand petals of the
lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.”
“There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can’t say a word. I know, I have been crying out to them. The Sacred Books of the East are nothing but words. I looked through their covers one day sideways. What Kabir talks of is only what he has lived through. If you have not lived through something, it is not true.”
“Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.”
He is the breath inside the breath.”
plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is,
Believe in the Great Sound!”
Believe in the Great Sound!”
“plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is,
Believe in the Great Sound!”
Believe in the Great Sound!”
What is found now is found then.If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.”
Hang up the swing of love today!
Hang the body and the mind between the
arms of the beloved, in the ecstasy of love's joy.”
Hang the body and the mind between the
arms of the beloved, in the ecstasy of love's joy.”
“If you make love with the divine now, in the next life
you will have the face of satisfied desire.”
you will have the face of satisfied desire.”
When the Guest is being searched for,
it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that
does all the work.
Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity
it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that
does all the work.
Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity
When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead,
then the work of the Teacher is over.”
then the work of the Teacher is over.”
“Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.”
Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think...and think... while you are alive.”
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think...and think... while you are alive.”
Now I have no caste, no creed,
I am no more what I am!”
I am no more what I am!”
I am looking at you,
You at him,
Kabir asks, how to solve
This puzzle--
You, he, and I?”
You at him,
Kabir asks, how to solve
This puzzle--
You, he, and I?”
“I said to my longing heart,
What is this river you want to cross?
There are no travelers before you, there is no road.
Do you see anyone moving or resting on that bank?”
What is this river you want to cross?
There are no travelers before you, there is no road.
Do you see anyone moving or resting on that bank?”
“This union with the guru, O Kabir,
Sets me free; like salt mingled
With flour, I am no more I!”
Sets me free; like salt mingled
With flour, I am no more I!”
Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.”
Listen to me brother! bring the
vision of the Beloved in your heart”
vision of the Beloved in your heart”
As long as a human being worries about when he will die,
and what he has that is his,
all of his works are zero.”
and what he has that is his,
all of his works are zero.”
Do you believe there is some place that will make the
soul less thirsty?
In that great absence you will find nothing
soul less thirsty?
In that great absence you will find nothing
just throw away all thoughts of
imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.”
imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.”
“The musk is inside the deer, but the deer does not
look for it,
it wander around looking for grass.”
look for it,
it wander around looking for grass.”
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