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Kabir

I’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.
KABIR

Burn Follow Hands Home Myself
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
KABIR

Bride Care Lover Party
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
KABIR

Deep Known Ocean
Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
KABIR

Finding Heart Willing Yourself
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
KABIR

Beloved Heart Listening Myself Vision
If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
KABIR

Listening Reality Secret Truth Yourself
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.
KABIR

Beautiful Flower Friendship Garden Infinite
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
KABIR

Service Stone Worship
The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
KABIR

Arrogant Beloved Hide Love Power Realize Tree Yourself
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.
KABIR

Body Name People Soul Start Water
Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
KABIR

Drink Ocean Run Water Yourself
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. When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over.
KABIR

Affection Creature Death Human Myself Teacher Worry
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
KABIR

Finding God Laughter People Pilgrimage Water
I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim, I am this body, a play Of five elements a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.
KABIR

Body Dance Element Joy Play Religion Sorrow Spirit
Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
KABIR

Body Finding Illusion Music Play
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
KABIR

Friendship Listening Love Understand

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