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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": "On the harp of the road what true melodies are being sounded! and its notes pierce the heart:\n\nThere the Eternal Fountain is playing its endless life-streams of birth and death.",
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      "text": "It is needless to ask of a saint the caste to which he belongs;\n\nFor the priest, the warrior. the tradesman, and all the thirty-six castes, alike are seeking for God.\n\nIt is but folly to ask what the caste of a saint may be;\n\nThe barber has sought God, the washerwoman, and the carpenter —\n\nEven Raidas was a seeker after God.",
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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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