Garden: Know yourself then...

Know yourself then, O Kabîr; for He is in you from head to foot. Sing with gladness, and keep your seat unmoved within your heart.

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Next: This is the end of a path, but not the end of the garden. Return to the beginning: would you like to follow the VEENA again, or answer the call of the FLUTE?

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[Source: RT 78 (partial); 3.63. kahain Kabîr, s'uno ho sâdho]

Here is the full poem:

LXXVIII

III. 63. kahain Kabîr, s'uno ho sâdho

  Kabîr says: "O Sadhu! hear my deathless words. If you want your

    own good, examine and consider them well.

  You have estranged yourself from the Creator, of whom you have

    sprung: you have lost your reason, you have bought death.

  All doctrines and all teachings are sprung from Him, from Him

    they grow: know this for certain, and have no fear.

  Hear from me the tidings of this great truth!

  Whose name do you sing, and on whom do you meditate? O, come

    forth from this entanglement!

  He dwells at the heart of all things, so why take refuge in empty

    desolation?

  If you place the Guru at a distance from you, then it is but the

    distance that you honour:

  If indeed the Master be far away, then who is it else that is

    creating this world?

  When you think that He is not here, then you wander further and

    further away, and seek Him in vain with tears.

  Where He is far off, there He is unattainable: where He is near,

    He is very bliss.

  Kabîr says: "Lest His servant should suffer pain He pervades him

    through and through."

  Know yourself then, O Kabîr; for He is in you from head to foot.

  Sing with gladness, and keep your seat unmoved within your heart.