{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sok/sok022.htm","path":"hin/sok/sok022.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sok/sok022.htm","text":"The Songs of Kabir, tr. by Rabindranath Tagore, intro. by Evelyn Underhill, [1915]\nII. 33. ghar ghar d\u00eepak barai\nLAMPS burn in every house, O blind one! and you cannot see them.\n One day your eyes shall suddenly be opened, and you shall see: and the fetters of death will fall from you.\n There is nothing to say or to hear, there is nothing to do: it is he who is living, yet dead, who shall never die again.\nBecause he lives in solitude, therefore the Yogi says that his home is far away. p. 71\n Your Lord is near: yet you are climbing the palm-tree to seek Him.\n The Br\u00e2hman priest goes from house to house and initiates people into faith:\n Alas! the true fountain of life is beside you., and you have set up a stone to worship.\n Kab\u00eer says: \"I may never express how sweet my Lord is. Yoga and the telling of beads, virtue and vice--these are naught to Him.\"","title":"The Songs of Kabir: XXI","type":"page"}