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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Kabir describes the nature of the union of the soul with God metaphorically by means of the union of the bride with her lover.
Kabir describes the state of deliverance which is attained by a mystical intuitive experience. It is a kind of ecstacy in which the soul merges itself into the Divine joy and sweetness and finds final rest. When he reaches such a state he becomes free for ever from the bondages of the world, from fear, error, and death. There is then the joy for ever, and no sorrow and no struggle. He enjoys the perfect joy. As Kabir says —"I have known in my body the sport of the universe : I have escaped from the error of this world. The inward and the outward have become as one sky, the Infinite and the finite are united : I am drunken with the sight of this All. This light of Thine fulfils the universe : the lamp of love that burns on the salver of knowledge."! There remains then nothing to say, nothing to hear, and nothing to do. It is a source of unending joy and happiness. One enjoys the everlasting and indescribable sweetness of nectar. It is a supersensuous joy; as Kabir says, he tasted without eating the sweetness of nectar and without water quenched his thirst, there is the response of delight and there is the fullness of joy. He becomes mad with joy; he dances and enjoys the grand symphony of the universe. He stands in the midst of such a grand ocean of
1 Tagore R. (Tr.) : Kabir's Poems, Poem 17, pp. 23-25. 2 Ibid. Poem 21, pp. 28–29. 3 Ibid. Poem 27, p. 34.
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