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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

The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
KABIR

Counseling Need Professional Serious Thirsty Water
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
KABIR

Day Feeling God Greatness Myself Pilgrimage
The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
KABIR

Myself Sick Tree Wander
God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.
KABIR

Enough Family God Guest Hungry Myself Provide
Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
KABIR

Divine Experience Heart Presence Truth
What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
KABIR

Aware Oneself Person Suffering
The sun is within me and so is the moon.
KABIR

Moon Myself Sun
Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
KABIR

Holy Shoulder Yourself
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
KABIR

Labor Learning Over Purpose
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
KABIR

Breathe God Himself Myself Student
There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!
KABIR

Earth Illusion Oneself Reality River Time
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
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
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Death Desert Scream Water Yourself
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.
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Body Dance Element Joy Play Religion Sorrow Spirit
There’s a moon in my body, but I can’t see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can’t hear it!
KABIR

Body Hands Moon Myself Sun
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
KABIR

Finding Greatness Sound Teacher Truth

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?

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