Jo sukh sadhu sang mein so baikunth na hoye.
Receiving God's warrants, Kabir surrendered with a weep,
Blissful fellowship of true men, he'll miss in heavens deep.
(Raam-God sent an invitation, Kabir started weeping, the kind of bliss in sadhu-true man's company, it’s not there in the heaven.)
On receiving God's invitation to come and enjoy the pleasures of the heavens, Kabir could not control himself and started weeping with sadness. The bliss and ecstasy in the company of Sadhus - realized men of truth is not possible in the heavens or even in God's own abode.
Kabir is indicating that people are more important than heavens and that heaven is not a faraway place. Bliss and pleasure of heaven can be experienced here on earth. The real bliss can be obtained only among the company of true, sincere and honest friends.
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Paaras mein aur sant mein baro antaaro jaan,
ik loha kanchan kare, ik kar de aap samaan.
Difference in a Midas and a Sant's touch be known,
One brightens iron, the other makes common his clone.
(Between persia stone and sant, understand the big difference, one livens up iron, other converts like his own self.)
Grasp the big difference between a Persia stone and a realized man of truth (Sant - a man who is above selfish greed and is therefore beyond pleasure and pain). Midas touch (Persia stone) brightens iron (iron turns into gold merely by the touch of a Persia stone) while the latter transforms one like himself. Persia stone only improves from one form of metal to another. It provides only a new shine and gloss to hard cold metal. A man of truth makes an improvement all the way that he can by making one like himself, a realized man of truth. This way the converted man not only is more valuable in himself, he also acquires all the powers of the realized man and can pass on these to others very much like the realized man did to him.
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