The swan has taken its flight to the LAKE beyond the mountains; why should it search for the POOLS and ditches any more? Your Lord dwells within you: why need your outward eyes be opened?
Where to next: the LAKE or the POOL?
[Source: RT 33 (partial); 2.105. man mast huâ tab kyon bole]
swan. This is the hamsa bird, a symbol associated with ultimate reality (Brahman) and also with moksha, release from the cycle of birth and death.
Here is the full poem:
XXXIII
II. 105. man mast huâ tab kyon bole
Where is the need of words, when love has made drunken the heart?
I have wrapped the diamond in my cloak; why open it again and
again?
When its load was light, the pan of the balance went up: now it
is full, where is the need for weighing?
The swan has taken its flight to the lake beyond the mountains;
why should it search for the pools and ditches any more?
Your Lord dwells within you: why need your outward eyes be
opened?
Kabîr says: "Listen, my brother! my Lord, who ravishes my eyes,
has united Himself with me."
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