# Kabir

- Quotes: 13
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kabir

## Books

- [Songs of Kabir](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kabir/songs-of-kabir.md) — 13 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> On the harp of the road what true melodies are being sounded! and its notes pierce the heart:
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> There the Eternal Fountain is playing its endless life-streams of birth and death.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kabir/songs-of-kabir/on-the-harp.md)

> It is needless to ask of a saint the caste to which he belongs;
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> For the priest, the warrior. the tradesman, and all the thirty-six castes, alike are seeking for God.
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> It is but folly to ask what the caste of a saint may be;
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> The barber has sought God, the washerwoman, and the carpenter —
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> Even Raidas was a seeker after God.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kabir/songs-of-kabir/it-is-needless.md)

> 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.
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> Kabîr 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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> They call Him Emptiness who is the Truth of truths, in Whom all truths are stored!
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> There 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.
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> Only he knows it who has reached that region: it is other than all that is heard and said.
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> No form, no body, no length, no breadth is seen there: how can I tell you that which it is?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kabir/songs-of-kabir/they-call-him.md)

> O servant, where dost thou seek Me?
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> Lo! I am beside thee.
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> I am neither in temple nor in mosque: I am neither in Kaaba nor in Kailash:
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> Neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and renunciation.
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> If thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at once see Me: thou shalt meet Me in a moment of time.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kabir/songs-of-kabir/o-servant-where.md)

> O friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live, understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides.
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> If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death?
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> It is but an empty dream, that the soul shall have union with Him because it has passed from the body:
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> If He is found now, He is found then,
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> If not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death.
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> If you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.

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> There the Unstruck Music eddies around the Infinite One;
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> There in the midst the Throne of the Unheld is shining, whereon the great Being sits —
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> Millions of suns are shamed by the radiance of a single hair of His body.

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> Hindus and Moslems alike have achieved that End, where remains no mark of distinction.

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> Open your eyes of love, and see Him who pervades this world! consider it well, and know that this is your own country.

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> He is the Ultimate Rest unbounded: He has spread His form of love throughout all the world.
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> From that Ray which is Truth, streams of new forms are perpetually springing: and He pervades those forms.

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> Do not go to the garden of flowers!
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> O Friend! go not there;
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> In your body is the garden of flowers.
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> Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.

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> Kabîr says, "O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath."

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