Stand fast in that which you are

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To what shore would you cross, O my

heart? there is no traveller before

you, there is no road:

Where is the movement, where is the

rest, on that shore?

There is no water; no boat, no boatman,

is there;

There is not so much as a rope to tow

the boat, nor a man to draw it.

No earth, no sky, no time, no thing, is

there: no shore, no ford!

There, there is neither body nor mind:

and where is the place that shall

still the thirst of the soul? You shall

find naught in that emptiness.

Be strong, and enter into your own body:

for there your foothold is firm. Consider

it well, O my heart! go not elsewhere.

Kabir says: " Put all imaginations away, and

stand fast in that which you are. "

 

- Kabir

 

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" Songs of Kabir "

Translated by Rabindranath Tagore

Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1977

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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