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WHO DOES NOT MAKE YOU CLOSE THE DOORS, AND HOLD THE BREATH, AND RENOUNCE THE WORLD...
The real Master is all for the world, because this world is a manifestation of God. This world is full of God. Every rock is so crowded with God, and every tree and every bird and all that exists is so full, overflowing with God... where to go? and for what? Whom to renounce? and for what? And how can one renounce? -- because wherever you are in God, and wherever you are you are in this world... because there is no other world.
HE DOES NOT MAKE YOU CLOSE YOUR DOORS, AND HOLD YOUR BREATH, AND RENOUNCE THE WORLD:
WHO MAKES YOU PERCEIVE THE SUPREME SPIRIT WHENEVER THE MIND ATTACHES ITSELF...
Just look at the beauty if this sutra. Kabir says:
WHO MAKES YOU PERCEIVE THE SUPREME SPIRIT WHENEVER THE MIND ATTACHES ITSELF...
He says: Don't be worried. Whenever you mind feels attachment, don't be afraid of the attachment: go deep into it and try to find God there... and you will find him there. You love a woman-no need to escape from her: look deep into her eyes... and you will find God there. God is welling up everywhere. You love your child-don't renounce the world and don't throw the child to this hungry, violent, ugly world, don't abandon the child to the wolves: look into the eyes of the child. Put ears to his heart and listen deeply... and you will find God there.
Kabir says: Unconditionally, whenever the mind attaches itself, perceive the supreme self.
I have heard about a man who came to Kabir and he wanted to know god, and Kabir asked him, "Don't you love somebody?"
He said, `Sorry, I don't love anybody.'
Kabir said, `Anybody will do, but you love-because unless you love, there is no bridge.'
The man was a little shy but then he confessed, `Yes, I love. I love my cow.' A poor man, and he had one cow and nothing else.
Kabir said, `Perfectly good. That will do.'
The man asked, `Then what have I to do now?'
He said, `Now you start thinking that the cow is divine. Now she is no more a cow; she is a god, a goddess. You serve her, you love her, you pat her, you give her a bath,
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