Friend, Hope For The Guest While You Are Alive Poem by Kabir

Friend, Hope For The Guest While You Are Alive

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Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think... and think... while you are alive.
What you call 'salvation' belongs to the time
before death.

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive,
do you think
ghosts will do it after?

The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic
just because the body is rotten—
that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found then.
If you find nothing now,
you will simply end up with an apartment
in the City of Death.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life
you will have the face of satisfied desire.

So plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is,
believe in the Great Sound!

Kabir says this: When the Guest is being search for,
it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest
that does all the work.
Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Nayanika Jayaram 08 January 2024

Pure Ecstasy! ! ! A radiance dazzling resplendent A thandava unparalleled.. Paramanandam....

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Muhammad Ali 27 November 2016

oooh my God. kabirs words are such a GEM. ur soul lingers on through ur .

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Kabir

Kabir

Pratapgar, Uttar Pradesh, India
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