kabir songs - if you do
not find your soul
There is nothing
but water at the holy bathing places;
and I know that they are useless,
for I have bathed in them.
The images are all
lifeless,
they cannot speak;
I know,
for I have cried aloud to them.
The Purana and the Koran
are mere words;
lifting up thee curtain, I have seen.
Kabir gives utterance to
the words of experience;
and he knows very well
that all other things are untrue.
I laugh when I hear
that the fish in the water is thirsty;
you do not see that the real is in your home,
and you wander from forest to forest listlessly!
Here is the truth!
Go where you will, to Banaras or Mathura;
if you do not find your soul,
the world is unreal to you.
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