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II. 37. <i>angadhiyâ devâ</i>

O Lord Increate, who will serve Thee?
Every votary offers his worship to the God of his own creation:
  each day he receives service--
None seek Him, the Perfect: Brahma, the Indivisible Lord.
They believe in ten Avatars; but no Avatar can be the Infinite
  Spirit, for he suffers the results of his deeds:
The Supreme One must be other than this.
The Yogi, the Sanyasi, the Ascetics, are disputing one with
  another:
Kabîr says, "O brother!  he who has seen that radiance of love,
  he is saved."

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II. 56. <i>dariyâ kî lahar dariyâo hai jî</i>

The river and its waves are one
surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves?
When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is
  the same water again.  Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction?
Because it has been named as wave, shall it no longer be
  considered as water?

Within the Supreme Brahma, the worlds are being told like beads:
Look upon that rosary with the eyes of wisdom.

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II. 57. <i>jânh khelat vasant riturâj</i>

Where Spring, the lord of the seasons, reigneth, there the
  Unstruck Music sounds of itself,
There the streams of light flow in all directions;
Few are the men who can cross to that shore!
There, where millions of Krishnas stand with hands folded,
Where millions of Vishnus bow their heads,
Where millions of Brahmâs are reading the Vedas,
Where millions of Shivas are lost in contemplation,
Where millions of Indras dwell in the sky,
Where the demi-gods and the munis are unnumbered,
Where millions of Saraswatis, Goddess of Music, play on the vina--
There is my Lord self-revealed: and the scent of sandal and
  flowers dwells in those deeps.

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II. 59. <i>jânh, cet acet khambh dôû</i>

Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has
  the mind made a swing:
Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never
  ceases its sway.
Millions of beings are there: the sun and the moon in their
  courses are there:
Millions of ages pass, and the swing goes on.
All swing! the sky and the earth and the air and the water; and
  the Lord Himself taking form:
And the sight of this has made Kabîr a servant.

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II. 61. <i>grah candra tapan jot varat hai</i>

The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright:
The melody of love swells forth, and the rhythm of love's
  detachment beats the time.
Day and night, the chorus of music fills the heavens; and Kabîr
  says
"My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky."

Do you know how the moments perform their adoration?
Waving its row of lamps, the universe sings in worship day and
  night,
There are the hidden banner and the secret canopy:
There the sound of the unseen bells is heard.
Kabîr says: "There adoration never ceases; there the Lord of the
  Universe sitteth on His throne."
The whole world does its works and commits its errors: but few
  are the lovers who know the Beloved.
The devout seeker is he who mingles in his heart the double
  currents of love and detachment, like the mingling of the
  streams of Ganges and Jumna;
In his heart the sacred water flows day and night; and thus the
  round of births and deaths is brought to an end.

Behold what wonderful rest is in the Supreme Spirit!  and he
  enjoys it, who makes himself meet for it.
Held by the cords of love, the swing of the Ocean of Joy sways to
  and fro; and a mighty sound breaks forth in song.
See what a lotus blooms there without water!  and Kabîr says
"My heart's bee drinks its nectar."
What a wonderful lotus it is, that blooms at the heart of the
  spinning wheel of the universe!  Only a few pure souls know of
  its true delight.
Music is all around it, and there the heart partakes of the joy
of the Infinite Sea.
Kabîr says: "Dive thou into that Ocean of sweetness: thus let all
  errors of life and of death flee away."

Behold how the thirst of the five senses is quenched there!  and
  the three forms of misery are no more!
Kabîr says: "It is the sport of the Unattainable One: look
  within, and behold how the moon-beams of that Hidden One shine
  in you."
There falls the rhythmic beat of life and death:
Rapture wells forth, and all space is radiant with light.
There the Unstruck Music is sounded; it is the music of the love
  of the three worlds.
There millions of lamps of sun and of moon are burning;
There the drum beats, and the lover swings in play.
There love-songs resound, and light rains in showers; and the
  worshipper is entranced in the taste of the heavenly nectar.
Look upon life and death; there is no separation between them,
The right hand and the left hand are one and the same.
Kabîr says: "There the wise man is speechless; for this truth may
  never be found in Vadas or in books."

I have had my Seat on the Self-poised One,
I have drunk of the Cup of the Ineffable,
I have found the Key of the Mystery,
I have reached the Root of Union.
Travelling by no track, I have come to the Sorrowless Land: very
  easily has the mercy of the great Lord come upon me.
They have sung of Him as infinite and unattainable: but I in my
  meditations have seen Him without sight.
That is indeed the sorrowless land, and none know the path that
  leads there:
Only he who is on that path has surely transcended all sorrow.
Wonderful is that land of rest, to which no merit can win;
It is the wise who has seen it, it is the wise who has sung of
  it.
This is the Ultimate Word: but can any express its marvellous
  savour?
He who has savoured it once, he knows what joy it can give.
Kabîr says: "Knowing it, the ignorant man becomes wise, and the
  wise man becomes speechless and silent,
The worshipper is utterly inebriated,
His wisdom and his detachment are made perfect;
He drinks from the cup of the inbreathings and the outbreathings
  of love."

There the whole sky is filled with sound, and there that music is
  made without fingers and without strings;
There the game of pleasure and pain does not cease.
Kabîr says: "If you merge your life in the Ocean of Life, you
  will find your life in the Supreme Land of Bliss."

What a frenzy of ecstasy there is in every hour! and the
  worshipper is pressing out and drinking the essence of the
  hours: he lives in the life of Brahma.
I speak truth, for I have accepted truth in life; I am now
  attached to truth, I have swept all tinsel away.
Kabîr says: "Thus is the worshipper set free from fear; thus have
  all errors of life and of death left him."

There the sky is filled with music:
There it rains nectar:
There the harp-strings jingle, and there the drums beat.
What a secret splendour is there, in the mansion of the sky!
There no mention is made of the rising and the setting of the
  sun;
In the ocean of manifestation, which is the light of love, day
  and night are felt to be one.
Joy for ever, no sorrow,--no struggle!
There have I seen joy filled to the brim, perfection of joy;
No place for error is there.
Kabîr says: "There have I witnessed the sport of One Bliss!"

I have known in my body the sport of the universe: I have escaped
  from the error of this world..
The inward and the outward are become as one sky, the Infinite
  and the finite are united: I am drunken with the sight of this
  All!
This Light of Thine fulfils the universe: the lamp of love that
  burns on the salver of knowledge.
Kabîr says: "There error cannot enter, and the conflict of life
  and death is felt no more."

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II. 77. <i>maddh âkas' âp jahân baithe</i>

The middle region of the sky, wherein the spirit dwelleth, is
  radiant with the music of light;
There, where the pure and white music blossoms, my Lord takes His
  delight.
In the wondrous effulgence of each hair of His body, the
  brightness of millions of suns and of moons is lost.
On that shore there is a city, where the rain of nectar pours and
  pours, and never ceases.
Kabîr says: "Come, O Dharmadas!  and see my great Lord's Durbar."

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II. 20. <i>paramâtam guru nikat virâjatn</i>

O my heart!  the Supreme Spirit, the great Master, is near you:
  wake, oh wake!
Run to the feet of your Beloved: for your Lord stands near to your
  head.
You have slept for unnumbered ages; this morning will you not
  wake?

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II. 22. <i>man tu pâr utar kânh jaiho</i>

To what shore would you cross, O my heart?  there is no traveller
  before you, there is no road:
Where is the movement, where is the rest, on that shore?
There is no water; no boat, no boatman, is there;
There is not so much as a rope to tow the boat, nor a man to draw
  it.
No earth, no sky, no time, no thing, is there: no shore, no ford!
There, there is neither body nor mind: and where is the place
  that shall still the thirst of the soul?  You shall find naught
  in that emptiness.
Be strong, and enter into your own body: for there your foothold
  is firm.  Consider it well, O my heart! go not elsewhere,
Kabîr says: "Put all imaginations away, and stand fast in that
  which you are."

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II. 33. <i>ghar ghar dîpak barai</i>

Lamps burn in every house, O blind one! and you cannot see them.
One day your eyes shall suddenly be opened, and you shall see:
  and the fetters of death will fall from you.
There is nothing to say or to hear, there is nothing to do: it is
  he who is living, yet dead, who shall never die again.

Because he lives in solitude, therefore the Yogi says that his
  home is far away.
Your Lord is near: yet you are climbing the palm-tree to seek
  Him.
The Brâhman priest goes from house to house and initiates people
  into faith:
Alas!  the true fountain of life is beside you., and you have set
  up a stone to worship.
Kabîr says: "I may never express how sweet my Lord is.  Yoga and
  the telling of beads, virtue and vice--these are naught to Him."

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II. 38. <i>Sâdho, so satgur mohi bhâwai</i>

O brother, my heart yearns for that true Guru, who fills the cup
  of true love, and drinks of it himself, and offers it then to
  me.
He removes the veil from the eyes, and gives the true Vision of
  Brahma:
He reveals the worlds in Him, and makes me to hear the Unstruck
  Music:
He shows joy and sorrow to be one:
He fills all utterance with love.
Kabîr says: "Verily he has no fear, who has such a Guru to lead
  him to the shelter of safety!"