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is a king.
Out of fear you create a god which is immature, as immature as you are. Out of love you start seeing God -- godliness, rather. Love gives you eyes to see that this whole existence is full of divinity. Then you don't call God 'The Father' or 'The Mother'; in fact then you don't give it any name.
Lao Tzu says 'I don't know His name, so I will call it Tao. But this is just to indicate. I don't know His name.'
Godliness has no name, no limitation. Wherever you pour your love you will discover it. Pour your love on a tree and the tree becomes God. Pour your love on a woman and the woman is a goddess, pour your love on a man and the man is a god. Pour your love anywhere, and suddenly love makes it possible, love creates the miracle, and God is discovered. Pouring love is the way to discover God.
But your gods are not discovered gods, they are invented gods, invented out of fear.
ALL THE GODS SCULPTED OF WOOD AND IVORY
CAN'T SAY A WORD.
I KNOW, says Kabir, I HAVE BEEN CRYING OUT TO THEM.
THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST ARE NOTHING BUT WORDS.
I LOOKED THROUGH THEIR COVERS ONE DAY SIDEWAYS.
If you also try to look sideways you will also find nothing but rubbish in the so-called sacred books. Rubbish of the ages, junk. But you will have to look sideways. What does he mean by 'sideways'? Look without the eyes of belief, look without any prejudice. Look courageously, daringly, don't be afraid in looking, and you will be surprised. In the Bible, in the Koran, in the Vedas, just look directly. Very rarely will you come across a gem; otherwise all is rubbish. One wonders why it has been collected in the so-called sacred scriptures of the world. But if you look with a prejudiced eye, with the belief that whatsoever is written there is truth and nothing but truth, then you will not be able to understand Kabir.
Kabir is saying: Burn the scriptures, be free of the scriptures -- because by being free of the scriptures you will be free of mind, by being free of scriptures you will be free of thoughts. You will attain to a kind of innocence, a not-knowing innocence. And from that point knowing starts.
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