When a devotee attains self-realization, all his intellectual pursuits and analytical inquiries come to an end. When he goes to the Master with the humility and earnestness of a beggar, he receives from the compassionate Master the wealth of Naam. He is then rid of his miseries and spiritual poverty and is no more required to go begging from door to door — seeking spiritual knowledge through various external practices. This divine gift becomes his very life; it destroys all his worldly desires and cravings.

Through the practice of Naam he withdraws his consciousness from the body and brings it to the eye center, a process called by the Saints 'dying while living'. The invisible Lord now becomes visible — visible not to the two physical eyes but to the inner eye, which opens when the devotee learns and perfects the art of dying while living. Kabir says that when the devotee realizes God, he attains that state of unity with Him in which all duality ends; the individuality of the devotee is lost in that of the Beloved and the son realizes the Father, merges in Him and becomes Him.

Why need I ponder now?
Why need I analyze?
I have realized my true self
And risen above such formalities.

This beggar has met
The munificent giver,
The wealth he has bestowed
I cannot exhaust through use;
None can rob me even of a grain
Of this bounty.
Now I have ceased to go
Begging from door to door.

If deprived of this gift
I cannot stay alive.
This treasure, once obtained,
Consumes all worldliness;
Only his life is fruitful
Who has earned this boon.
But without dying while living
This life is no life.

When I destroyed the sandalwood grove,
When I ravaged the wilderness,
Without eyes I perceived
My Beloved's beauteous form.
The son begot the Father,
And without foundation, without ground.
He raised a gorgeous town.

One who knows the art
Of dying while living
Ever enjoys the bliss
Of the five peaks within.
Says Kabir: Having obtained the treasure,
I met my beloved Lord;
I met Him
And was rid of my I-ness.

K.G., p. 137:282
Ib kyā keejai gyān bichārā