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experience, it is borrowed. And all that is borrowed is untrue -- from whom you have taken it doesn't make any difference. You may have taken it from a man who knew, you may have taken it from Kabir or Christ or Krishna -- that doesn't make much difference. From whom you borrow, it doesn't make any difference; the moment you borrow it, it is false.
Truth cannot be borrowed.
I see something. But when I say it to you, it is not my vision that reaches you but only my words. The vision is left with me; only words leave me. Those words are empty. And you will collect those words, and you will think they have come from a man who knows, so they must be true. They are not.
Truth is only when there is experience.
So when Kabir is saying it he is not only saying it against ancient scriptures, he is saying it against his own words too. Remember it with me too. You cannot see truth just by collecting my words. And the temptation is great. When you see a man who knows, his words have such authenticity, such vigor, such passion, that his passion is infectious. Beware of the temptation. When I say something to you I say it so totally that you can start believing in it. But that will be a belief, and you will only be cherishing words.
I have seen the beauty. But when I talk about it to you it is no more the same. You can ask then why do I talk in the first place? Why does Kabir talk? If words cannot say it, then why talk at all? There is still some reason to talk. Words cannot give you the truth, but words can create a thirst in you. I cannot transfer my truth to you, but I can make you feel that truth exists. Now the journey starts -- don't think that the journey has ended. Words can put you on the way, they cannot give you the truth. But from a man who knows, they come like flames. They burn you. They create a great desire in you to know, to see, to be.
But those words are not enough. Don't sit upon them! Let me be infectious to you as far as your thirst, hunger, for truth is concerned. But my words are words, Buddha's words are words, all scriptures are words. The wise person will just take the indication that truth exists: 'Now I have
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