The Essential Works of Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore

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       On the harp of the road what true melodies are being sounded!

       and its notes pierce the heart:

       There the Eternal Fountain is playing its endless life-streams of

       birth and death.

       They call Him Emptiness who is the Truth of truths, in Whom all

       truths are stored!

      There within Him creation goes forward, which is beyond all

       philosophy; for philosophy cannot attain to Him:

       There is an endless world, O my Brother! and there is the

       Nameless Being, of whom naught can be said.

       Only he knows it who has reached that region: it is other than

       all that is heard and said.

       No form, no body, no length, no breadth is seen there: how can I

       tell you that which it is?

       He comes to the Path of the Infinite on whom the grace of the

       Lord descends: he is freed from births and deaths who attains

       to Him.

       Kabîr says: "It cannot be told by the words of the mouth, it

       cannot be written on paper:

       It is like a dumb person who tastes a sweet thing—how shall it

       be explained?"

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      III. 60. cal hamsâ wâ des' jahân

      O my heart! let us go to that country where dwells the Beloved,

       the ravisher of my heart!

       There Love is filling her pitcher from the well, yet she has no

       rope wherewith to draw water;

       There the clouds do not cover the sky, yet the rain falls down in

       gentle showers:

       O bodiless one! do not sit on your doorstep; go forth and bathe

       yourself in that rain!

       There it is ever moonlight and never dark; and who speaks of one

       sun only? that land is illuminate with the rays of a million

       suns.

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      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.

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      III. 66. nâ main dharmî nahîn adharmî

      I am neither pious nor ungodly, I live neither by law nor by

       sense,

       I am neither a speaker nor hearer, I am neither a servant nor

       master, I am neither bond nor free,

       I am neither detached nor attached.

       I am far from none: I am near to none.

       I shall go neither to hell nor to heaven.

       I do all works; yet I am apart from all works.

       Few comprehend my meaning: he who can comprehend it, he sits

       unmoved.

       Kabîr seeks neither to establish nor to destroy.

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      III. 69. satta nâm hai sab ten nyârâ

      The true Name is like none other name!

       The distinction of the Conditioned from the Unconditioned is but

       a word:

       The Unconditioned is the seed, the Conditioned is the flower and

       the fruit.

       Knowledge is the branch, and the Name is the root.

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