{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sok/sok082.htm","path":"hin/sok/sok082.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sok/sok082.htm","text":"The Songs of Kabir, tr. by Rabindranath Tagore, intro. by Evelyn Underhill, [1915]\nIII. 74. pratham ek jo \u00e2pai \u00e2p\nIN the beginning was He alone, sufficient unto Himself: the formless, colourless, and unconditioned Being.\n Then was there neither beginning, middle, nor end;\n Then were no eyes, no darkness, no light;\n Then were no ground, air, nor sky; no fire, water, nor earth; no rivers like the Ganges and the Jumna, no seas, oceans, and waves.\n Then was neither vice nor virtue; scriptures there were not, as the Vedas and Puranas, nor as the Koran.\n Kab\u00eer ponders in his mind and says, \"Then was there no activity: the Supreme Being remained merged in the unknown depths of His own self.\" p. 128\n The Guru neither eats nor drinks, neither lives nor dies:\n Neither has He form, line, colour, nor vesture.\n He who has neither caste nor clan nor anything else--how may I describe His glory?\n He has neither form nor formlessness,\n He has no name,\n He has neither colour nor colourlessness,\n He has no dwelling-place.","title":"The Songs of Kabir: LXXXI","type":"page"}