All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
KABIR
KABIR
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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
KabirKabir Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
KabirKabir As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.
KabirKabir Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
KabirKabir Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
KabirKabir If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
KabirKabir My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
KabirKabir When the flower opens, the bees will come.
KabirKabir I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
KabirKabir 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.
KabirKabir 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.
KabirKabir Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
KabirKabir Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
KabirKabir Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
KabirKabir When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
KabirKabir If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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