Kabir says people mourn the death of their near and dear ones as if they themselves were going to live in this world forever. Those who meet a perfect Master and learn from him the method of attaining eternal life do not face death again; they are freed from the chains of birth and death. Those who are engrossed in passions and sense pleasures, who do not meet the Master and follow his directions, continue to die again and again. Kabir calls the human body a well from which five water bearers — the five senses — draw the water of sense pleasures. But now the devotee's mind, which once enjoyed the pleasures through the five senses, has turned inwards — the rope or the means to draw the water is broken. Now even if the lower tendencies try to distract his attention they will fail to do so. Kabir says that when the attention of the mind is turned inwards, the well and water carriers do not exist, that is, the limitations of the physical body and the downward tendencies of the senses become ineffective.

When others die,
Why need you mourn?
Mourn, if you were to live forever.
The world dies, but I'll not die,
For I have met the giver
Of everlasting life.

This body emits
The perfume of passions;
In its luring fragrance
Man has forgotten
The source of supreme bliss.

There is one well, five damsels
Draw water from it;
Even though the rope is broken,
These foolish ones
Try to fill their vessels.

Says Kabir, I have realized the truth:
There is no well, nor water carriers.

A.G., Gauri, p. 325
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