The Land of No Return

Describing the inner regions, Kabir says that the path of Truth is a path of realization, not of analysis or explanation. If the seeker meets a perfect Master and is initiated into the practice of Shabd, if he stills the mind at the eye center and contemplates on the divine power according to the Master's directions, then he will attain his object of God-realization. He will not be required to face death again, that is, he will be free from the chain of birth and death. He will reach his original home, the Lord's abode, from where there is no return to the world of matter.

 

When the body dies,
To what home goes the soul?
How does the soul merge
Into the primal Unstruck Shabd?
Only he who has realized the Lord
Knows the truth;
He revels in his knowledge
Yet remains speechless
Like a dumb man who has eaten sugar.

The Lord himself
Has expounded this knowledge:
Hold your fleeting mind firmly
At the point of Sukhman;
Adopt such a Master
That a Master again
You do not need to seek;
Dwell in such a state
That a dwelling again
You do not have to make;
Undertake such a contemplation
That contemplation again
You do not have to undertake;
So die that you do not need again to die.

Reverse the flow of Ganga and Jamuna
And merge them into one;
With no water, bathe within
At the confluence of the three rivers.
Worldly pursuits are like the torments of hell;
If you realize the Truth,
What else remains to be realized?

As water, fire, air, earth and ether
Stay mixed in man,
So should you stay merged in the Lord.
Says Kabir: Meditate on the Lord
Free from all stain;
Go to that home
From which there is no return.

 

A.G., Gauri, p. 327
Pind mue jio kih ghar jātā

 

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