All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
KABIRAll darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
KABIRA diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
KABIRThough One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
KABIRI’ve burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I’ll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.
KABIRI laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don’t grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!
KABIRAs the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
KABIRWhen you really look for me you will see me instantly.
KABIRListen, my friend. He who loves understands.
KABIRThe river that flows in you also flows in me.
KABIRWhy are we here? To become ourselves in you.
KABIRIf it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
KABIRWithin the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion.
KABIRListen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.
KABIRWhen you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
KABIRThe fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
KABIRMen have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.
KABIR