# Quote — Kabir, Songs of Kabir

> 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.

- Author: [Kabir](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kabir.md)
- Book: [Songs of Kabir](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kabir/songs-of-kabir.md)
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## More from this book

> 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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