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Kabir, the Conditioned existence, i.e., the universe emanates from the Unconditioned (nirguņa) like a flower and fruit from the seed.' Carpenter describes this idea of God or the ultimate reality of Kabir in the following passage · "Here is a conception which embraces all contrarieties of life and transcends them all. Like the opposites which Heracleitus beheld within a higher unity, differences and antagonisms disappear. The right hand and the left hand are the same; the inward and the outward become as one sky; life and death are in conflict no more, their separation is ended; in the light of love day and night, joy and sorrow, cease to be at strife; fear and trouble pass away, and renunciation is transfigured into bliss. For, he, who is within, is without, and one love pervades the whole world." Though God is the cause of the universe He transcends it. He pervades the whole universe, and assumes the innumerable forms; everything springs from Him. He is full of brilliance, and millions of unstruck notes of melodies are sounded there. Within Him all the creation goes forward and philosophy cannot comprehend Him. He is without form and body. He is infinite and illimitable. He is completely different from all the perceptible objects of the world. He is beyond the Vedas, beyond all the distinctions, beyond merit and demerit, beyond knowledge and the known, different from the gross and subtle; He is unique (trailokya.
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1 Tagore R. (Tr.) Kabir's Poems, Poem 80, p. 86. 2 Carpenter J. E.: Theism in Medieval India, pp. 464, 465.
3 Tagore R. Kabir's Poems, Poem 76, pp. 78-81.
