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Kabir's Dohe -2
My Lord is but one, the other can’t be said. If I say any other than my
Lord, he is displeased with me.
(Rishaay or rosh word has no equivalent in English, it means being
angry for valid reasons and resisting/opposing to some wrong concepts
or act. It is a positive word, not a negative one).
The One has no face, no head, neither has it has any form. It is neither
beautiful nor ugly. It is subtler than the fragrance of the flowers. Such is
the One which has no equivalent or no example.
My Lord is the one who is beyond the birth and death. I am sacrificed
upon my Beloved who has created the whole existence.
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The One has no form, no visibility; he has never taken any body (adhar-
the one who doesn’t take anything). He resides in the middle of the
skies, such is the formless One.
The Lord does everything, the man can’t do anything. The Lord can turn
sand into High Mountain or he can turn a mountain into dust.
All credit goes to my Lord, it happens in the way he likes it. He can turn
a stone into soil and again he can turn the soil into wind and blow it. It
is all his will.
There is none else capable like my Lord. He is the greatest one, deep and
sincere. He picks only virtues in us and throws away all sins. He takes
no time in ferrying us across.
Whatever is done is done by you only. I have not done anything. If you
urge that I have done it all, only you were residing in me and doing it
through me.
O my Lord, the ones who don’t remain within your will, are not worth
even for seashells. The ones on whom you have showered your
blessings, becomes worth of Lacs.
Your Lord resides within you just like the fragrance is in the flowers.
You keep running here and there madly for the Lord like the deer which
has the musk in its novel yet, it knows it not and searches among grass
for the source of the fragrance.
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The one for which you keep searching in the whole world, resides within
your own body. He has given this veil of illusion that is why you see him
not.
If you understand it, you will stay in your own home and will not go
outside to search him. Being ever joyful, keep your eyes closed and see
him. Your Lord is within you; don’t go to any other place.
There are so many beings; all of them have different mindset, thoughts,
appearance, talks and dresses. The One is emanating through all of
them, the One which himself is invisible.
The Lord is like fire, residing in all beings. The mind is not rubbed all
together; hence the fire doesn’t show up.
Kabir says – The shabad or sound resides in the body without playing
like the strings of musical instruments resonating. The sound has
surrounded me within and without and thus the illusions are gone.
There are different types of the words or sounds. Pay attention to the
Sar Sahbad(essence of the sounds). Catch hold of the sound which will
take you to the Lord, don’t pay attention or follow other sounds.
One word can be the source of the pain and suffering and yet another
word can be the source of joy and happiness. One word can cut all your
chains and bondage, yet words are which can make you more bound and
chained. The above applies to sound practice and the words of this
world too. The audible words are also coming from the source of sound
and even they are in the grossest form, they have the power to cause
pain and misery or happiness.
Everybody talks about the words, but no one knows the high power it
possesses. The words have no hands or feet, yet they are so much
powerful, one word can be a cure to you and yet another one can cause a
wound.
Speak the cool and calm words to everyone; don’t let the ego enter in
yourself. Your Beloved resides within you and so are your enemies. The
whole play of the existence is within us, and it is watched over what ever
we act or speak, we must always be humble and sweet speaking.
Don’t think it same as the pearls which make a garland. This is the pearl
of shabd or words, which pierces the whole body.
27. Jantr Mantr sab jhooTh hai, mat bharamo jag koy.
Saar shabad jaane bina, kaga hans na hoy.
The Mantra (Reciting holy words) and Jantra (The enchanted and
sacred things which are sought to prevent evil) are all false. Don’t fall in
these illusions. Without knowing the Sar Sahbad no one can be purified
(The Crow can’t turn to swan- a symbol to describe the impure souls
turning into pure souls).
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apart.
The primal sound is our own essence, understand it. The ones, who have
known their own essence, have become immortal.
30. Aadi naam nij mool hai, aur mantra sab Daar.
Kah Kabir nij naam binu, booDri mua samsaar.
The primal or elementary Name (sound) is our own essence, the root of
our being. Rest all mantras are like branches of it. Kabir says – without
knowing own real essence, own True Name, the world is drawn into
illusions and dies.
The moment Name entered in the heart, it burnt all the sins into ashes.
If you pile the grasses still one small spark of the fire is capable to burn
it all, so does the Naam to our sins.
Lit the lamp of the knowledge in the deep recesses of your home (body).
Sitting there, remember the Satnam or true name in deep absorption.
As you were earlier absorbed in the illusionary world and its pleasures,
so do for the Name now. If you are capable to be absorbed in the Name,
you will cross the region of the skies full of stars and will reach to
immortal world.
This is the bounty of Ram Naam. Everybody can get it without any
discrimination. Get it if you like. The moment will come when you will
be in deathbed and you will regret that you didn’t take it.
You wandered on the whole earth searching your Beloved. You traveled
your country and foreign places in hope to meet him. What a strange
phenomena it is, the moment you meet your beloved, your own
courtyard seems like foreign place (both in the sense of home and body
where the soul resides).
You turned back to your own self, what a brilliant and infinite light it
produced!! Now the Lord and the servant both live together. Forever
they play together in spring like spirit.
You became a Yogi (absorbed, immersed) and the vision appeared. Now
all doubts and conflicts are gone (they remain only till you have not
witnessed it by yourself).
Like the salt melts into the water and is forever dissolved, so Kabir is
dissolved, now he will not have to come and go again and again. Now
Surat(attention, soul) is merged into shabad and Kaal has become
silent(This experience and merging is beyond time and space).
Whatever I had to tell you, I have already told. Now there is nothing to
say or speak. Now one is gone (the feeling of I is lost. Another meaning
is that GOD is one, but it sounds like if there is one then there would be
second too) and the other is also gone(the feeling of I separate than the
Beloved is lost). The wave is dissolved back to the ocean.
Now the mind has turned upwards (Unmuni) and is absorbed above. It
is reached to skies where the moonlight is spread without any moon and
where the invisible King Niranjan resides.
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is reached to skies where the moonlight is spread without any moon and
where the invisible King Niranjan resides.
Now the feeling of me and mine is totally lost and I am freed forever.
Now I have found the residence in ineffable region. Now none else is
mine but you only. Now you are my only hope, you are my only shelter.
The Love has enlightened the cage of my body, now it is all light inside. I
sleep in the palace with peace and joy, now my words and tongue carry
the fragrance of Love.
Kabir had come to this world to see and enjoy the various forms and
their beauty. But Kabir became Saint and he has now seen the formless
one!!
Kabir has now seen the Lord with himself, within him. His splendor
can’t be described in words. He has touched Kabir with his own
luminous light, and the light has entered into Kabir’s eyes.
There were thunders in the sky, and the deep condensed clouds came
from all around. It is raining heavily. The electrical waves are sparkling
from all sides and Kabir is drenched in the rain (This vision denotes to
inner vision or spiritual vision of rain, which is symbolic to the God’s
grace and love showering all over. The Grace is always there, but the
soul is not able to see it and be receptive to it, the vision appears only
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grace and love showering all over. The Grace is always there, but the
soul is not able to see it and be receptive to it, the vision appears only
when the soul can actually feel it)!!
When Kabir arranged and lit the lamp of true knowledge, then only he
was able to see the Lord of whom there is no equal (aparam – denotes to
someone with no equivalent). Now Kabir serves to the place where even
four Vedas have no idea, that place is beyond the reach of the knowledge
in Vedas.
The swans (freed souls) play and enjoy in the pure cool water of
Mansarover Lake (a lake which comes during spiritual journey, where
the impurity of the souls are washed away). Now the free swans eat
pearls and don’t fly to other place (regions below this place).
I made my abode in the void palace and there the sweet melody is
resonating all the time. Each and every bit of my body has become the
lamp, and the Merciful Lord has appeared within me.
The attention/soul flied high in the sky and it takes rest only at his holy
feet. Now I have found true happiness and peace, when I have found my
Lord. Now my joy knows no bounds.
I was appeared in this world like an ice appears out of water and I am
dissolved back as the ice again melts into water. Kabir has become the
same again as he was before coming here. I have nothing more to say
(about this journey).
This is like the ocean of great void ness, in which our mind swims like a
fish swimming in the water. All The deities are like the water within it
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This is like the ocean of great void ness, in which our mind swims like a
fish swimming in the water. All The deities are like the water within it
and the shore (the all apparently visible things). The ocean is made of
nectar in which all are enjoying their being. But rare are those who
know this secret.
The “I” which I thought was mine, is now absorbed in the One, and the
One is now visible in everything. Now everything and everyone is mine
and I am of all. There is no other. It is all One and together.
Kabir says the doubts can’t be removed; even you try so many
appearances (in the sense of the dress codes Sadhus opt for) and so
many spiritual practices. Until you meet the Lord and be in communion
with him, the doubts and conflicts will always remain in your mind and
heart.
(On the question of the beginning of the universe or the sufferings one
was going through, the creation and other intellectual questions,
Ramkrishna used to say – why do you want to count the trees, the fruits,
the leaves and so on in the garden? Try to meet the owner of the garden.
If you can meet him, he himself will tell you everything if he wants so).
If someone asks about the inner experiences, the knowledge of true self
and so on, it is just like you ask a dumb person how the sweetmeat
tastes like. Even if he eats it, he can’t tell anything about it, he will just
enjoy the taste.
Only a dumb person can understand all hints and gestures of a dumb
person. In the similar way, only a realized soul can understand the joy
and happiness of another realized soul. Others will always remain in
darkness about it.
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Those who write praises of Beloved or those who write about the Truth
are but practical and worldly people (they have not experienced it yet).
Those who have attained the eyes of soul or self, who have realized the
self, can’t write about it. Even if they want to write they can't, what and
where they will write? For them it is only Beloved everywhere, all over.
This experience is not a matter of written words. No one can describe it.
It is a matter of witnessing, a matter of experience. When the groom and
bride meet each other, the whole wedding party looses its charm. When
the bride and groom meet, nothing else in the world matters for them.
The wedding party appeals till the marriage is not happened. The same
applies for the spiritual wedding, when a soul meets to its Beloved;
everything else is fallen apart, all else loose charm and attraction. But
this is a matter of experience, not until one has gone through his own
wedding, can he realize that state of absorption.
What ever is filled up, will one day be empty and what ever is empty can
be filled up. This is the normal behavior of the world. But the experience
of true self is something which is neither empty not filled (the self, the
God is neither filled with anything nor it is empty at all).
The true Sadhu should be like the SOOP(Bamboo made stuff which is
used by villagers to blow the husk away from the grain). The SOOP
blows the husk in wind and keeps the solid grain with it, in similar way a
Sadhu or seeker should keep the useful essence of the things, talks and
discussions with him and throw the useless, worthless things away. It
can also be said that he should keep the attention in virtues and not on
faults or sins of others.
Again Kabir says that seeker should pick the virtues from all places and
people (learn it) but should not inherit the bad habits. He should be like
a butterfly which flies to all places, but carefully it identifies the flowers
by its fragrance and takes the honey but keeps itself safe from the thorns
and other troublesome distractions. A seeker should pick the spiritual
essence and Godliness from all places but should pay no attention to
other things.
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Like a swan takes the essence of the milk and leaves the water mixed in
it, it has the sense of discrimination, in similar way a seeker should grab
the essence and leave the rest. If someone develops this nature, he will
definitely cross the illusionary regions.
The True Name or Satnaam is like the milk and the visible appearances,
behaviors and talks are like the water (mixed together) both of which
make the whole. A Sadhu is like a swan who filters essential from
non-essential and partakes the elementary essence- Satnaam.
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