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holier then others -- that they are not ordinary people, they are extraordinary. And these things give you beautiful dreams of yourself being extraordinary, superior, holier-than-thou. These are ego trips.
THERE IS NOTHING BUT WATER IN THE HOLY POOLS,
I KNOW, says Kabir, I HAVE BEEN SWIMMING IN THEM.
ALL THE GODS SCULPTED OF WOOD AND IVORY
CAN'T SAY A WORD.
I KNOW, I HAVE BEEN CRYING OUT TO THEM.
And Kabir says it out of his own experience. He had been going to all these places -- to the temple and to the mosque and to the holy river and to the sacred places, he had travel led along. But he was traveling with eyes open, watching what is happening. And nothing was happening. He says it out of his own experience. He is not a theoretician, remember it always -- whatsoever he says, he says because he has experienced it. His statement has a validity; he is not only philosophizing, it is not only an idea, that there is nothing but water in the holy pools. He says:
I KNOW, I HAVE BEEN SWIMMING IN THEM. ALL THE GODS SCULPTED OF WOOD AND IVORY CAN'T SAY A WORD.
And you go on praying to them. And see the absurdity of it, the ridiculousness of it: you have created them! You have purchased them from the marketplace and then you start worship ping them. They are playthings, toys to play with, and you go on deceiving yourself. And you can be so auto hypnotized by your own deceptions that the whole life can go down the drain without knowing a single glimpse of truth.
Destroy all these idols. It will be painful, because they have a certain consolation. It will become very very painful, because you will be left alone with no god to cry to, to pray to. You will be left alone in this vast emptiness of existence. But that is the first step towards reality, towards the true God, towards godliness.
Be naked of all beliefs and be free of all idols.
ALL THE GODS SCULPTED OF WOOD AND IVORY
CAN'T SAY A WORD.
I KNOW, says Kabir, I HAVE BEEN CRYING OUT TO THEM.
He had prayed for many years -- he is not just saying it, he cried his eyes out. He was weeping and crying and weeping and crying and
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