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The moon shines in my body

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

The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:
The moon is within me, and so is the sun.
The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.

So long as man clamours for the I and the Mine, his works are as naught:
When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.
For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:
When that comes, then work is put away.

The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers.
The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.

 

 

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

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Themes

  Death
  Drum
  Garden
  Light
  Lotus


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The Bijak of Kabir, Translated by Linda Hess / Translated by Shukdeo Singh
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Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi, Translated by Mahmood Jamal
The Kabir Book: Forty-Four fo the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir, Translated by Robert Bly
Kabir: The Weaver's Songs, by Kabir / Translated by Vinay Dharwadker

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