United...

"WHERE is the need of words, when love has made drunken the heart?


I have wrapped the diamond in my cloak; why open it again and again?


When its load was light, the pan of the balance went up:

Now it is full, where is the need for weighing?


The swan has taken its flight to the lake beyond the mountains;

Why should it search for the pools and ditches any more?


Your Lord dwells within you:

Why need your outward eyes be opened?


Kabir says: 'Listen, my brother!

my Lord,
Who ravishes my eyes,

has united Himself with me.'"




Kabir
in _Songs of Kabir_. II.105
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915, p. 81