Kabir's Poems -6-

Sumran surat lagaye ke, mukh se kachu na bol, 
Bahar ke paat band kar, andar ke paat khol.

Conscious of meditation, poised hush on your face, 
desist outer solicitation, unfold the inner space.

(Remember the face, do not say anything from your mouth, close the outer doors, and open the inner doors)

Kabir asks such pretend meditators to shut their mouth into silence and to immerse their mind and thoughts in meditation on universal love and truth. Such silent meditation and a journey to the inside is the only way to peace, happiness and bliss. He asks to shut all the outer doors so that one becomes aware of the inner doors and can meet one's own SELF.

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Kabir soya kya kare, naa kar neend se payar, 
Jaisa supna rain ka, waisa ye samasr.

Do not love your sleep, not waste life o dreamer; 
illusion is this world, like a dream in slumber.

(Why are you sleeping Kabir, do not fall in love with sleep, like a dream of night, is this world.)

Kabir declares that through meditation one finds ones true self. The experience of meeting and knowing ones true self changes one’s life forever. It is like an awakening experience. One realizes the extinction of ego and with that wakes up to one’s real identity. Once experienced, one can never slip back into ego and ego driven pursuits. One still carries on daily duties (as Kabir continued his profession and daily routine of a cloth weaver on a hand loom) but doing it out of joy and love rather than as a drudgery and compulsion.

The experience of meeting one’s self is like waking from a dream and realizing that chasing material goals and pursuits is like chasing a pot at the end of a rainbow. He asks not to fall in love with the material world and its futile exhausting exertions. It is fragile like falling in love with the dream world of night dreams.

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