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necessary to remove the separating veil (ghunghatake pata-) to see God living behind it and who can be properly approached by abandoning harshness and pride.' It is absurd to aspire to secure eternal bliss from the world as it is illusory; how can 'one obtain butter from a barren cow which does not secrete milk.2 Kabir points out the impediments in the path of removal of the Maya which causes attachment, anger, pride, and vain glory. What is thus necessary is to realise the Self or God within one's own heart and not to run wild in search of Him outside us like a musk deer.
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Kabir does not think it necessary to renounce home and to take resort to jungle for the attainment of liberation or deliverance. He, therefore, says that the home is the abiding place; the home is reality; the home helps to attain Him who is real, so stay where you are, and all things shall come to you in time.3 What is necessary for the attainment of God is casting away pride, vanity and the sense of 'I' and 'mine' which negates the all-pervading God. The work of the Lord can be done only when the' love of I and mine is dead. Kabir, therefore, advo cates the need of overcoming the sense of narrow egoism and of destroying the separative consciousness and to prepare oneself to offer himself entirely to the Divine, body and soul, just as a bride does to her
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! Dvivedi Hajariprasad Kabir (Hindi), Poem 224, p. 350. 2 Ibid. Poem 253, p. 361.
3 Tagore R. (Tr.): Kabir's Poems, Poem 40, p. 47,
Ibid. Poem 6, p. 5.
