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		 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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