{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sok/sok025.htm","path":"hin/sok/sok025.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sok/sok025.htm","text":"The Songs of Kabir, tr. by Rabindranath Tagore, intro. by Evelyn Underhill, [1915]\nII. 48. jis se rahani ap\u00e2r jagat men\nMORE than all else do I cherish at heart that love which makes me to live a limitless life in this world.\n It is like the lotus, which lives in the water and blooms in the water: yet the water cannot touch its petals, they open beyond its reach.\n It is like a wife, who enters the fire at the bidding of love. She burns and lets others grieve, yet never dishonours love.\n This ocean of the world is hard to cross: its waters are very deep. Kab\u00eer says: \"Listen to me, O Sadhu! few there are who have reached its end.\"","title":"The Songs of Kabir: XXIV","type":"page"}