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Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941

"Songs of Kabir"


Kab?r says: "Come, O Dharmadas! and see my great Lord's Durbar."

XIX

II. 20. param?tam guru nikat vir?jatn
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?

XX

II. 22. man tu p?r utar k?nh jaiho
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,
Kab?r says: "Put all imaginations away, and stand fast in that
which you are.


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