Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but in… - Kabir

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Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? Mohammed's son pores over words, and points out this and that, but if his chest is not soaked dark with love, then what? The Yogi comes along in his famous orange, but if inside he is colorless, then what?

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Kabir (1440–1518) was an Indian poet, mystic and philosopher, and one of the Northern India Sants.

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Alternative Names: Kabir Sahib • Kabir Das • Bhagat Kabir

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If by worshipping stones one can find God, I shall worship a mountain. If by immersion in the water salvation be attained, the frogs who bathe continually would attain it. As the frogs, so are these men, again and again fall into the womb.

He who is within is without: I see Him and none else.

Do not go to the garden of flowers!
O Friend! go not there;
In your body is the garden of flowers.
Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.

Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? Mohammed's son pores over words, and points out this an… - Kabir

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