Garden: Your Lord is near...

Your Lord is near: yet you are climbing the palm-tree to seek Him. The Brâhman priest goes from house to house and initiates people into faith: alas! The true fountain of life is beside you, and you have set up a stone to worship.

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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 FLUTE, or answer the call of the VEENA?

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[Source: RT 21 (partial); 2.33. ghar ghar dîpak barai]

Brahman priest = Brahmin. These are priests and also teachers in the Hindu tradition.

Here is the full poem:

XXI

II. 33. ghar ghar dîpak barai

  Lamps burn in every house, O blind one! and you cannot see them.

  One day your eyes shall suddenly be opened, and you shall see:

    and the fetters of death will fall from you.

  There is nothing to say or to hear, there is nothing to do: it is

    he who is living, yet dead, who shall never die again.

  Because he lives in solitude, therefore the Yogi says that his

    home is far away.

  Your Lord is near: yet you are climbing the palm-tree to seek

    Him.

  The Brâhman priest goes from house to house and initiates people

    into faith:

  Alas! the true fountain of life is beside you., and you have set

    up a stone to worship.

  Kabîr says: "I may never express how sweet my Lord is. Yoga and

    the telling of beads, virtue and vice—these are naught to Him."