In order to realize the Lord, mind and soul have to turn inwards, go within the body and enter the inner spiritual worlds. Kabir says that when the soul, crossing the regions of mind and maya, becomes perfect like the Lord, it will merge in Him — the Perfect One. Mind, a particle of universal mind or Brahm, can become pure by getting rid of the dross of desires and passions, but cannot become perfect because the state of true perfection is beyond the reach of mind. On meeting the Lord, the soul becomes one with Him. Conveying the state of complete unity of the soul and the Lord, Kabir says that the soul, the drop, has merged in God, the Ocean, and God has merged into the soul.

I've filled the vessel of my body
With water luminous and pure;
With my body, mind
And the vigour of youth
I drink it; I drink it,
Yet thirst for more.

My mind turned inwards,
It plunged into the sea
Of love and bliss
And it bathes with joy;
It tries to fathom Thee:
It tries
But does not succeed
For Thou art perfect,
My merciful Lord,
While mind is not.

Searching for Him, O friend,
Kabir lost himself;
When the drop has merged
Into the Ocean,
How can the drop be found?

Searching
And searching
For Him, O friend,
Kabir lost himself;
The Ocean has merged
Into the drop,
Now how can the Ocean
Be found?

K.G., p. 13:1-4