The darkness of night is coming along fast
and the shadows of love close in the body and the mind
open the window to the west and disappear into the air inside you
near your breastbone there is an open flower
drink the honey that is all around that flower
waves are coming in
there is so much magnificence near the ocean
Listen! sound of immense seashells
sound of bells
Kabir says
friend listen this is what i have to say
the guest i love is inside me
friend hope for the guest while you are alive
jump into experience while you are alive
think and think while you are alive
what you call salvation belongs to the time before death
if you don't break your ropes while you're alive do you think ghosts will do it after
the idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body is rotten
that is all fantasy
what is found now is found then
if you find nothing now you will simply end up with an apartment in the city of death
and if you make love with the divine now
in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire
then plunge into the truth
find out who the teacher is
believe in the great sound
Kabir says this when the guest is being searched for
it is the intensity of the longing for the guest that does all the work
look at me you will see a slave of that intensity