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      "text": "He comes to the Path of the Infinite on whom the grace of the Lord descends: he is freed from births and deaths who attains to Him.\n\nKabîr says: \"It cannot be told by the words of the mouth, it cannot be written on paper: It is like a dumb person who tastes a sweet thing — how shall it be explained?\"",
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      "text": "They call Him Emptiness who is the Truth of truths, in Whom all truths are stored!\n\nThere within Him creation goes forward, which is beyond all philosophy; for philosophy cannot attain to Him: There is an endless world, O my Brother! and there is the Nameless Being, of whom naught can be said.\n\nOnly he knows it who has reached that region: it is other than all that is heard and said.\n\nNo form, no body, no length, no breadth is seen there: how can I tell you that which it is?",
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      "text": "O servant, where dost thou seek Me?\n\nLo! I am beside thee.\n\nI am neither in temple nor in mosque: I am neither in Kaaba nor in Kailash:\n\nNeither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and renunciation.\n\nIf thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at once see Me: thou shalt meet Me in a moment of time.",
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      "text": "O friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live, understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides.\n\nIf your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death?\n\nIt is but an empty dream, that the soul shall have union with Him because it has passed from the body:\n\nIf He is found now, He is found then,\n\nIf not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death.\n\nIf you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.",
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      "text": "There the Unstruck Music eddies around the Infinite One;\n\nThere in the midst the Throne of the Unheld is shining, whereon the great Being sits —\n\nMillions of suns are shamed by the radiance of a single hair of His body.",
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