(1440 - 1518 / Pratapgar, Uttar Pradesh, India)

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Abode of the Beloved

Oh Companion That Abode Is Unmatched,
Where My Complete Beloved Is.

In that Place There Is No Happiness or Unhappiness,
No Truth or Untruth
Neither Sin Nor Virtue.
There Is No Day or Night, No Moon or Sun,
There Is Radiance Without Light.

There Is No Knowledge or Meditation
No Repetition of Mantra or Austerities,
Neither Speech Coming From Vedas or Books.
Doing, Not-Doing, Holding, Leaving
All These Are All Lost Too In This Place.

No Home, No Homeless, Neither Outside or Inside,
Micro and Macrocosm Are Non-Existent.
Five Elemental Constituents and the Trinity Are Both Not There
Witnessing Un-struck Shabad Sound is Also Not There.

No Root or Flower, Neither Branch or Seed,
Without a Tree Fruits are Adorning,
Primordial Om Sound, Breath-Synchronized Soham,
This and That - All Are Absent, The Breath Too Unknown

Where the Beloved Is There is Utterly Nothing
Says Kabir I Have Come To Realize.
Whoever Sees My Indicative Sign
Will Accomplish the Goal of Liberation.

Submitted: Thursday, January 01, 2004
Edited: Wednesday, May 02, 2012


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  • Sonia Baadkar (12/19/2012 1:11:00 AM)

    This poem hypnotizes..

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  • Dipankar Chakraborty (11/16/2012 10:32:00 AM)

    Beyond utterance....
    Its hypnotical bounds in d poem.

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  • Bhajan Radio (9/8/2012 5:20:00 AM)

    This is a great poem but its very difficult to understand true meaning of this poem. http: //bhajanradio.com/kabir-dohe.html

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  • Mario Rios Pinot (9/17/2009 11:36:00 AM)

    Wonderful poem...who is the translator? This poem is a great model.

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  • Asma Khan (8/31/2009 4:56:00 PM)

    Its a superb poem. There are many famous poems of Kabir.

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  • O Anna Niemus (2/2/2009 5:44:00 AM)

    Kabir's poems number in the hundreds or thousands.

    They are all divinely inspired

    There are many levels of his poetry lost in translation

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