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Song 24
More than all else do I cherish at heart that
love which makes me
to live a limitless life in this world.
It is like the lotus, which lives in the water and
blooms in the
water: yet the water cannot touch its petals, they
open beyond its reach.
It is like a wife, who enters the fire at the
bidding of love.
She burns and lets others grieve, yet never
dishonours love.
This ocean of the world is hard to cross: its waters
are very
deep. Kabīr says: "Listen to me, O Sadhu! few there
are who
have reached its end."
Song 25
My Lord hides Himself, and my Lord
wonderfully reveals Himself:
My Lord has encompassed me with hardness,
and my Lord has cast down my limitations.
My Lord brings to me words of sorrow and words of
joy,
and He Himself heals their strife.
I will offer my body and mind to my Lord: I will
give up my life,
but never can I forget my Lord!
Song 26
All things are created by the Om;
The love-form is His body.
He is without form, without quality, without decay:
Seek thou union with Him!
But that formless God takes a thousand forms in the
eyes of His creatures:
He is pure and indestructible,
His form is infinite and fathomless,
He dances in rapture, and waves of form arise from
His dance.
The body and the mind cannot contain themselves,
when they are touched by His great joy.
He is immersed in all consciousness, all joys, and
all sorrows;
He has no beginning and no end;
He holds all within His bliss.
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