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Date Posted: 14:58:20 09/26/05 Mon
Author: m - 10 Aug 2005
Subject: Kabir says

GORAKHNATH asks Kabīr:
"Tell me, O Kabīr, when did your vocation begin? Where did your love have its rise?"
Kabīr answers:
"When He whose forms are manifold had not begun His play: when there was no Guru, and no disciple: when the world was not spread out: when the Supreme One was alone--
Then I became an ascetic; then, O Gorakh, my love was drawn to Brahma.
Brahma did not hold the crown on his head; the god Vishnu was not {p. 78} anointed as king; the power of Shiva was still unborn; when I was instructed in Yoga.

I became suddenly revealed in Benares, and Rāmānanda illumined me;
I brought with me the thirst for the Infinite, and I have come for the meeting with Him.
In simplicity will I unite with the Simple One; my love will surge up.
O Gorakh, march thou with His music!"

Songs of Kabir
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore

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