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Song XXXIII: Where is the need of words, when love has made drunken the heart?
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, with Evelyn Underhill (1915) · From Songs of Kabir (1915)
Where is the need of words, when love has made drunken the heart?
I have wrapped the diamond in my cloak; why open it again and again?
When its load was light, the pan of the balance went up: now it is full, where is the need for weighing?
The swan has taken its flight to the lake beyond the mountains;
why should it search for the pools and ditches any more?
Your Lord dwells within you: why need your outward eyes be opened?
Kabîr says: "Listen, my brother! my Lord, who ravishes my eyes, has united Himself with me."
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Kabir. “Song XXXIII: Where is the need of words, when love has made drunken the heart?” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, with Evelyn Underhill. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kabir/32/.
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Kabir. “Song XXXIII: Where is the need of words, when love has made drunken the heart?” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, with Evelyn Underhill. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kabir/32/.
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- Song XXV: My Lord hides Himself, and my Lord wonderfully reveals Himself:
- Song XLVIII: I have stilled my restless mind, and my heart is radiant
- Song LXVII: I do not know what manner of God is mine.
- Song LXXXVI: Serve your God, who has come into this temple of life!