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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

Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
KABIR

Body Himself Honor Soul Treat
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
KABIR

Labor Learning Over Purpose
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
KABIR

Move River Surrender Yourself
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
KABIR

Admire Criticism Fake
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
KABIR

Alive Feeling Guest Yourself
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
KABIR

Blind City Mirrors Myself
I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
KABIR

Myself Quote Scripture See Simplicity
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
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
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
The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.
KABIR

Fake God Life Pride Yourself
Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
KABIR

Heart Singing Yourself
Within 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.
KABIR

Body Creation Illusion Instrument Listening Music Play
Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
KABIR

Absence Believe Finding Greatness Place Soul Willing Yourself
I 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!
KABIR

Confusion Factor Holy Home Laughter Walk Water Yourself
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
KABIR

Forest Laughter Thirsty Water Yourself

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