Garden: If God be within...

If God be within the mosque, then to whom does this world belong? If Ram be within the image which you FIND upon your pilgrimage, then who is there to KNOW what happens without?

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Where to next: the KNOWING or the FINDING also?

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[Source: RT 69 (partial); 3.2. jo khodâ masjid vasat hai]

Ram = Rama. This is an avatar of the god Vishnu whose story is told in the Ramayana.

Here is the full poem:

LXIX

III. 2. jo khodâ masjid vasat hai

  If God be within the mosque, then to whom does this world belong?
  If Ram be within the image which you find upon your pilgrimage,
    then who is there to know what happens without?
  Hari is in the East: Allah is in the West. Look within your
    heart, for there you will find both Karim and Ram;
  All the men and women of the world are His living forms.
  Kabîr is the child of Allah and of Ram: He is my Guru, He is my
    Pir.

Garden: It is not the austerities...

It is not the austerities that mortify the flesh which are pleasing to the Lord; when you leave off your clothes and kill your senses, you do not please the Lord: The man who is KIND and who practices righteousness, who remains passive amidst the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own SELF, He attains the Immortal Being, the true GOD is ever with him.

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Where to next: the KINDNESS or GOD... or perhaps the SELF?

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[Source: RT 65 (partial); 1.22. jab main bhûlâ, re bhâî]

Here is the full poem:

LXV

I. 22. jab main bhûlâ, re bhâî

  O brother! when I was forgetful, my true Guru showed me the Way.
  Then I left off all rites and ceremonies, I bathed no more in the
    holy water:
  Then I learned that it was I alone who was mad, and the whole
    world beside me was sane; and I had disturbed these wise people.
  From that time forth I knew no more how to roll in the dust in
    obeisance:
  I do not ring the temple bell:
  I do not set the idol on its throne:
  I do not worship the image with flowers.
  It is not the austerities that mortify the flesh which are
    pleasing to the Lord,
  When you leave off your clothes and kill your senses, you do not
    please the Lord:
  The man who is kind and who practises righteousness, who remains
    passive amidst the affairs of the world, who considers all
    creatures on earth as his own self,
  He attains the Immortal Being, the true God is ever with him.
  Kabîr says: "He attains the true Name whose words are pure, and
    who is free from pride and conceit."