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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.

Kabir

Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
KABIR

Diamond Heart Market Open Way Yourself
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
KABIR

Flash Lightening Myself Oneself Sky
Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn’t give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
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Body Name People Soul Start Water
The river that flows in you also flows in me.
KABIR

Flow River Yourself
I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
KABIR

Bad Finding Myself Person Search Worst
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
KABIR

Desire Divine Face Love Satisfaction
A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
KABIR

Control Himself Knowledge Learning Man
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
KABIR

Imagination Stand Throw Yourself
If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
KABIR

Anguish Comfort Laughter Possible Separate State Suffering White
Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
KABIR

Friendship God Listening Myself
Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
KABIR

Death Remain Wisdom World
Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
KABIR

Holy Shoulder Yourself
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
KABIR

Greatness Honey Wealth Zest
The essence of life is in remembering God.
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Essence God Life Remember
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
KABIR

Counseling Need Professional Serious Thirsty Water
The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.
KABIR

God Himself Immortal Kind Man Passive Practice Right

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