The bhakti path winds in a delicate way

by Kabir

English version by Robert Bly
Original Language Hindi

The bhakti path winds in a delicate way.
On this path there is no asking and not asking.
The ego simply disappears the moment you touch him.
The joy of looking for him is so immense that you just dive in,
and coast around like a fish in the water.
If anyone needs a head, the lover leaps up to offer his.
Kabir's poems touch on the secrets of this bhakti.

-- from The Kabir Book: Forty-Four fo the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir, Translated by Robert Bly

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