Man is always engaged in the pursuit of physical pleasures, not realizing that indulgence in them is the cause of the misery of further births and deaths. Saints, knowing this, do not crave for the world or its pleasures. As long as mind runs after sense pleasures, man cannot attain true freedom and reach the Lord.

Kabir says that the seeker must go within his own body and realize what mind is, where it comes from and where it goes in the end. In the past, great devotees like Jaidev and Namdev solved this mystery through their Master's grace and through the path of love and devotion, and one can do so even now. If the delusion of duality is removed, the devotee will realize that, like the soul, the mind can also become free from the chain of birth and death.

By realizing the hukam or 'order' of the Lord, that is, by manifesting the Word, Naam or Shabd within, the devotee will know that the mind's origin is Brahm — the lord of the second region in the inner spiritual realms — and merge his mind into its source. Then the soul will be free from all physical bonds and will enjoy bliss in the company of the Lord.

Man prays for worldly happiness,
But all happiness comes
Accompanied by pain;
I don't like to beg
For such happiness.

Man craves sense pleasures
Yet hopes to attain peace;
How can he find an abode
At the feet of the Lord,
The King of all?

Even Shiv and Brahma
Dread these pleasures,
But the same pleasures we take
As lasting and real.

The sons of Brahma,
Narad the seer,
And the mighty snake,
Even they could not probe
Into the body
And see the mind.

Search into the mind, O brother:
Where goes the mind
After the body dies?

By the Master's blessings,
Through love and devotion
Jaidev and Nama
Solved the mystery of the mind.

He whose delusion is dispelled
Realizes the Truth;
Then his mind has neither to come
Nor to go.

This mind has neither form nor shape;
It has come by His Order,
And by realizing His Order
It will merge into its origin.

He who unravels
The mystery of the mind,
Through the mind merges in Him
Who is the Bestower of bliss.

The soul in essence is one,
Many are the bodies
In which it takes abode.
Kabir has merged his mind
Back into its source,
And his soul
Revels with the Lord.

A.G., Gauri, p. 330
Sukh māngat dukh āgai āvai