KABIR’S POEMS
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the Ocean of Joy sways to and fro ; and a mighty sound breaks forth in song.
See what a lotus blooms there without water ! and Kabir says,
" My heart’s bee drinks its nectar."
What a wonderful lotus it is, that blooms at the heart of the spinning wheel of the universe! Only a few pure souls know of its true delight.
Music is all around it, and there the heart partakes of the joy of the Infinite Sea,
Kabir says : " Dive thou into that Ocean of sweetness : thus let all errors of life and of death flee away."
Behold how the thirst of the five senses is quenched there ! and the three forms of misery are no more !
Kabir says : " It is the sport of the
