Mystic-Poems of Sant Kabir

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baagon naa jaa re naa jaa

 

Do not go to the garden of flowers!

O friend! go not there;

In your body is the garden of flowers.

Take your seat on the thousand petals of the

lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.

 

 

koi prem ki peng jhulaao re

 

Hang up the swing of love today!

Hang the body and the mind between the

arms of the Beloved, in the ecstasy of love's joy:

Bring the tearful streams of the rainy clouds

to your eyes, and cover your heart with

the shadow of darkness:

Bring your face nearer to his ear, and speak

of the deepest longings of your heart.

Kabir says: `Listen to me brother! bring the

vision of the Beloved in your heart.'

 

-- Kabir, translated by Rabindranath Tagore, "Songs of Kabir"

 

 

 

 

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