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Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.

Kabir

Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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Crown Flower Head Heart Reach Root Yourself
Stand firm in that which you are.
KABIR

Firm Stand Yourself
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
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
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
KABIR

Blind City Mirrors Myself
I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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Bad Finding Myself Person Search Worst
Listen 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.
KABIR

Himself Listening Reality Secret Sound
Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!
KABIR

Distance Myself Smile Water
Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
KABIR

Design God Paint Weird Yourself
A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
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Control Himself Knowledge Learning Man
Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
KABIR

Forgiveness Game Play Saint
The river that flows in you also flows in me.
KABIR

Flow River Yourself
Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
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Day Humble Praise Slander
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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Labor Learning Over Purpose
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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Move River Surrender 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

Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.

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