Kabir: (4) Do not go to the garden of flowers!

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(4) Do not go to the garden of flowers!

Kabir, Kabir poetry, Muslim / Sufi, Muslim / Sufi poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Yoga / Hindu poetry

by Kabir
(15th Century) Timeline

English version by
Rabindranath Tagore

Original Language
Hindi

Muslim / Sufi

Yoga / Hindu

15th Century

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

-- from One Hundred Poems of Kabir: Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, by Kabir / Translated by Rabindranath Tagore

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Themes

Garden

Lotus

Rose

Spring Blossom

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