just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are. |
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart |
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert,
when all around you there is nothing but water! |
Man, here is your worth, Your meat is of no use! Your bones cannot be sold For making ornaments, And your skin cannot be played On an instrument! |
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am! |
plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound! |
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath. |
The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls. |
The ida that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body is rotten --that is all fantasy. |
The musk is inside the deer, but the deer does not look for it, it wander around looking for grass. |
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over. |
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail. |
There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford! |
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. |
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! |