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KABIR’S POEMS
God-inhabited, God-possessed (XXVI, LVI, LXXVI, LXXXIX, XCVII), He may best be found in the here-and-now: in the normal, human, bodily existence, the “mud” of material life (III, IV, VI, XXI, XXXIX, XL, XLIII, XLVIII, LXXII). “We can reach the goal without crossing the road” (LXXVI) — not the cloister but the home is the proper theatre of man’s efforts: and if he cannot find God there, he need not hope for success by going farther afield. “In the home is reality.” There love and detachment, bondage and freedom, joy and pain play by turns upon the soul; and it is from their conflict that the Unstruck Music of the Infinite proceeds. “ Kabir says: None but Brahma can evoke its melodies.”
