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　　CHAPTER XVII

　　II. 61. grah candra tapan jot varat hai

　　The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright:

　　The melody of love swells forth, and the rhythm of love's

　　detachment beats the time.

　　Day and night, the chorus of music fills the heavens; and Kabîr

　　says

　　"My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky."

　　Do you know how the moments perform their adoration?

　　Waving its row of lamps, the universe sings in worship day and

　　night,

　　There are the hidden banner and the secret canopy:

　　There the sound of the unseen bells is heard.

　　Kabîr says: "There adoration never ceases; there the Lord of the

　　Universe sitteth on His throne."

　　The whole world does its works and commits its errors: but few

　　are the lovers who know the Beloved.

　　The devout seeker is he who mingles in his heart the double

　　currents of love and detachment, like the mingling of the

　　streams of Ganges and Jumna;

　　In his heart the sacred water flows day and night; and thus the

　　round of births and deaths is brought to an end.

　　Behold what wonderful rest is in the Supreme Spirit! and he

　　enjoys it, who makes himself meet for it.

　　Held by the cords of love, the swing of the Ocean of Joy sways to

　　and fro; and a mighty sound breaks forth in song.

　　See what a lotus blooms there without water! and Kabîr says

　　"My heart's bee drinks its nectar."

　　What a wonderful lotus it is, that blooms at the heart of the

　　spinning wheel of the universe! Only a few pure souls know of

　　its true delight.

　　Music is all around it, and there the heart partakes of the joy

　　of the Infinite Sea.

　　Kabîr says: "Dive thou into that Ocean of sweetness: thus let all

　　errors of life and of death flee away."

　　Behold how the thirst of the five senses is quenched there! and

　　the three forms of misery are no more!

　　Kabîr says: "It is the sport of the Unattainable One: look

　　within, and behold how the moon-beams of that Hidden One shine

　　in you."

　　There falls the rhythmic beat of life and death:

　　Rapture wells forth, and all space is radiant with light.

　　There the Unstruck Music is sounded; it is the music of the love

　　of the three worlds.

　　There millions of lamps of sun and of moon are burning;

　　There the drum beats, and the lover swings in play.

　　There love-songs resound, and light rains in showers; and the

　　worshipper is entranced in the taste of the heavenly nectar.

　　Look upon life and death; there is no separation between them,

　　The right hand and the left hand are one and the same.

　　Kabîr says: "There the wise man is speechless; for this truth may

　　never be found in Vadas or in books."

　　I have had my Seat on the Self-poised One,

　　I have drunk of the Cup of the Ineffable,

　　I have found the Key of the Mystery,

　　I have reached the Root of Union.

　　Travelling by no track, I have come to the Sorrowless Land: very

　　easily has the mercy of the great Lord come upon me.

　　They have sung of Him as infinite and unattainable: but I in my

　　meditations have seen Him without sight.

　　That is indeed the sorrowless land, and none know the path that

　　leads there:

　　Only he who is on that path has surely transcended all sorrow.

　　Wonderful is that land of rest, to which no merit can win;

　　It is the wise who has seen it, it is the wise who has sung of

　　it.

　　This is the Ultimate Word: but can any express its marvellous

　　savour?

　　He who has savoured it once, he knows what joy it can give.

　　Kabîr says: "Knowing it, the ignorant man becomes wise, and the

　　wise man becomes speechless and silent,

　　The worshipper is utterly inebriated,

　　His wisdom and his detachment are made perfect;

　　He drinks from the cup of the inbreathings and the outbreathings

　　of love."

　　There the whole sky is filled with sound, and there that music is

　　made without fingers and without strings;

　　There the game of pleasure and pain does not cease.

　　Kabîr says: "If you merge your life in the Ocean of Life, you

　　will find your life in the Supreme Land of Bliss."

　　What a frenzy of ecstasy there is in every hour! and the

　　worshipper is pressing out and drinking the essence of the

　　hours: he lives in the life of Brahma.

　　I speak truth, for I have accepted truth in life; I am now

　　attached to truth, I have swept all tinsel away.

　　Kabîr says: "Thus is the worshipper set free from fear; thus have

　　all errors of life and of death left him."

　　There the sky is filled with music:

　　There it rains nectar:

　　There the harp-strings jingle, and there the drums beat.

　　What a secret splendour is there, in the mansion of the sky!

　　There no mention is made of the rising and the setting of the

　　sun;

　　In the ocean of manifestation, which is the light of love, day

　　and night are felt to be one.

　　Joy for ever, no sorrow,—no struggle!

　　There have I seen joy filled to the brim, perfection of joy;

　　No place for error is there.

　　Kabîr says: "There have I witnessed the sport of One Bliss!"

　　I have known in my body the sport of the universe: I have escaped

　　from the error of this world..

　　The inward and the outward are become as one sky, the Infinite

　　and the finite are united: I am drunken with the sight of this

　　All!

　　This Light of Thine fulfils the universe: the lamp of love that

　　burns on the salver of knowledge.

　　Kabîr says: "There error cannot enter, and the conflict of life

　　and death is felt no more." Songs of Kabir