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Song
80
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.
Look, and see where the root is:
happiness shall be yours when you come to the root.
The root will lead you to the branch, the leaf, the
flower, and the fruit:
It is the encounter with the Lord, it is the
attainment of bliss,
it is the reconciliation of the Conditioned and the
Unconditioned.
Song 81
In the beginning was He alone,
sufficient unto Himself: the
formless, colourless, and unconditioned Being.
Then was there neither beginning, middle, nor end;
Then were no eyes, no darkness, no light;
Then were no ground, air, nor sky; no fire, water,
nor earth; no
rivers like the Ganges and the Jumna, no seas,
oceans, and waves.
Then was neither vice nor virtue; scriptures there
were not, as
the Vedas and Puranas, nor as the Koran.
Kabīr ponders in his mind and says, "Then was there
no activity:
the Supreme Being remained merged in the unknown
depths of His own self."
The Guru neither eats nor drinks, neither lives nor
dies:
Neither has He form, line, colour, nor vesture.
He who has neither caste nor clan nor anything
else--
how may I describe His glory?
He has neither form nor formlessness, He has no
name,
He has neither colour nor colourlessness, He has no
dwelling-place.
Song 82
Kabīr ponders and says: "He who
has neither caste nor country,
who is formless and without quality, fills all
space."
The Creator brought into being the Game of Joy: and
from the word
Om the Creation sprang.
The earth is His joy; His joy is the sky;
His joy is the flashing of the sun and the moon;
His joy is the beginning, the middle, and the end;
His joy is eyes, darkness, and light.
Oceans and waves are His joy:
His joy the Sarasvati, the Jumna, and the Ganges.
The Guru is One: and life and death.,
union and separation, are all His plays of joy!
His play the land and water, the whole universe!
His play the earth and the sky!
In play is the Creation spread out, in play it is
established.
The whole world, says Kabīr, rests in His play, yet
still the
Player remains unknown.
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