{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sok/sok043.htm","path":"hin/sok/sok043.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sok/sok043.htm","text":"The Songs of Kabir, tr. by Rabindranath Tagore, intro. by Evelyn Underhill, [1915]\nI. 79. t\u00eerath men to sab p\u00e2n\u00ee hai\nTHERE is nothing but water at the holy bathing places; and I know that they are useless, for I have bathed in them.\n The images are all lifeless, they cannot speak; I know, for I have cried aloud to them.\n The Purana and the Koran are mere words; lifting up the curtain, I have seen.\n Kab\u00eer gives utterance to the words of experience; and he knows very well that all other things are untrue.","title":"The Songs of Kabir: XLII","type":"page"}