{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sok/sok007.htm","path":"hin/sok/sok007.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sok/sok007.htm","text":"The Songs of Kabir, tr. by Rabindranath Tagore, intro. by Evelyn Underhill, [1915]\nI. 83. cand\u00e2 jhalkai yahi ghat m\u00e2h\u00een\nTHE moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:\n The moon is within me, and so is the sun.\n The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.\nSo long as man clamours for the I and the Mine, his works are as naught:\n When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.\n For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:\n When that comes, then work is put away.\nThe flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers. p. 50\n The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.","title":"The Songs of Kabir: VI","type":"page"}