Kabir's Speech (Vani)

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Kabir’s Vani (Speech)

1)        All are born as human beings and everybody knows this fact. The unfaithful have divided the Humanity into high and low

2)        Just as the bullock of the oilman though near home thinks it far, in the same way, it is useless if one has perfected yogasanas but failed to attain the mind's desires

3)       For fear of others, man take pleasure in outward shows like bathing at dawn, smearing ash on his forehead without bothering to understand the real importance of self knowledge that God dwells in him

4)       Kabir tells that by dividing men into castes, clans and creeds encourage quarrels and feads. Better than the Brahmin is a donkey who does useful service to man, a dog is better than a low caste as it guards the house, a cock is better than a Mullah who wakes up a man from his sleep

5)       Learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he does not have control over his tongue. Due to his utterances will injure others and will cause loss of peace of mind

6)       Just as the weaver weaving thread by thread brings the end near, in the same way we cannot run away from death because death leads us step by step

7)       The Almighty God, sitting alertly in each individual guides the actions of man according to his will God exists in one's heart like the pupil in the eye. But ignorance causes a man to seek him far and wide

8)       The king, the beggar and the saint all of them experience distress and sorrow. Happy and content is he, who controls the mind

9)       'Mind bird' flies here and there to taste world pleasure as long as the 'knowledge-falcon' does not take it over

10)   There are few people who by the grace of the Almighty escape the push and pull of Kama or lust, One who avoids casting his eyes on any woman and considers her as sister or mother will not be destroy by death

11)   Attachment like a tempting woman delight even the wise man, if driven away, she hits back again and again

12)   Man should avoid idle gossip as it is useless and engage himself in good deeds, which will lead him in reaching the goal

13)   Hindus and Muslims fight in the name of Rama and Rahim to destruction. But neither of them understands the fact that the Almighty god is one

14)   It is neither rewarding to offer worship to the stone idols in the temple (instead of God within) as do the Hindus or to take shelter of no God for attaining salvation (as do the Muslims). God who dwells in the heart of every being is the one whose shelter has to be sought

15)   At the time of  death, Hindus chant the name of Rama and Muslims that of Khuda, but neither of them remember God's name during their lifetime

God is the source of all the creations of the Universe in the same way as the seed, which holds the leaves, the branches and the fruits