The fish in the sea is not thirsty
1.
When my friend is away from me,
I am depressed;
nothing in the daylight delights me,
sleep at night gives no rest,
who can I tell about this?
the night is dark and long.
Hours go by - because I am alone,
I sit up suddenly,
fear goes through me ...
Kabir says: Listen, my friend
there is one thing in the world that satisfies
and that is a meeting with the guest.
2.
I don't know what sort of God we have been talking about.
The caller calls in a loud voice to the Holy One at dusk.
Why?
Surely the Holy One is not deaf.
He hears the delicate anklets that ring on the feet of an insect as it walks.
Go over and over your beads,
paint designs on your forehead,
wear you hair matted, long and ostentatious,
but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun,
how can you have God?
3.
O friend, I love you, thinks this over carefully!
If you are in love, then why are you asleep?
If you have found him, give yourself to him, take him.
Why do you lose track of him again and again?
If you are about to fall into heavy sleep anyway,
why waste time smoothing the bed and arranging the pillows?
Kabir will tell you the truth:
this is what love is like:
suppose you had to cut your head off and give it to someone else,
what difference would that make?
4.
Student, do the simple purification.
You know, that the seed is inside the ... -chestnut tree;
and inside the seed there are the blossoms of the tree and the chestnuts and the shade.
So inside the human body there is the seed and inside the seed there is the body again.
Fire, air, earth, water and space -
if you don't want the secret one, you cannot have these either.
Thinkers, listen, tell me what you know of that is not in the soul?
A pitcher full of water is set down on the water -
now it has water inside and water outside.
We mustn't give it a name,
lest silly poeple start talking again about the body and the soul.
If you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself,
and he is the one who has made it all.
5.
Inside the clay jug there are canyons and pine mountains,
and the maker of the canyons and the mountains!
All seven oceans are inside,
and hundreds of millions of stars.
The acid that tests gold is there, and the one who judges jewels.
And the music from the strings no one touches,
and the source of all water.
If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth:
Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.
6.
Why should we two ever want to part?
Just as the leaf of the water rhubarb lives floating on the water,
we live as the great one and little one.
As the owl opens his eyes all night to the moon,
we live as the great one and little one.
This love between us goes back to the first humans;
it cannot be annihilated.
Here is Kabir's idea:
as the river gives itself into the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
7.
Shall I fail with words, when love has made the space inside me full of light?
I know the diamond is wrapped in this cloth,
so why should I open it all the time and look?
When the pan is empty, it flew up;
now that it's full, why bother weighing it?
The swan has flown to the mountain lake!
Why bother with ditches and holes any more?
The Holy One lives inside you - why open your other eyes at all?
Kabir will tell you the truth:
Listen, brother:
the Guest, who makes my eyes so bright, has made love with me.
8.
I laugh, when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.
You don't grasp the fact, that what is most alive of all is inside your own house;
and so you walk from one holy city to the next with confused look!
Kabir will tell you the truth:
go, wherever you like, to Calcutta or Tibet,
if you can't find where your soul is hidden,
for you the world will never be real!
9.
Knowing nothing shuts the irongates;
the new love opens them.
The sound of the gates opening wakes the beautiful woman asleep.
Kabir says: Fantastic! Don't let a chance like this go by!
10.
Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind has put up a swing:
all earthh creatures, even the super novas, sway between these two trees,
and it never winds down.
Angels, animals humans, insects by the million, also the wheeling sun and moon;
ages go by, and it goes on.
Ever thing is swinging;
heaven, earth, water, fire, and the secret one slowly growing a body.
Kabir caught one glimpse of that;
it made him a servant for life.
11.
My inside, listen to me,
the greatest spirit, the Teacher, is near,
wake up, wake up!
Run to his feet - -
he is standing close to your head right now.
You have slept for millions and millions of years.
Why not wake up ths morning?
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