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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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      "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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