Salok Bhagat Kabir, Salok 69 — only Kabir did not die
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Kabir says: the doctor has died, the patient has died, the whole world has died.
Only Kabir has not died; there is no one who needs to weep for him.
Whoever has merged with the One is beyond the death that comes to everyone else.
Baid moo-aa, the doctor died; rogee moo-aa, the sick person died; moo-aa sabh sansaar, the whole world dies. No one escapes, not even the one whose job is healing.
Ayk kabeeraa naa moo-aa: only Kabir did not die. Jih naahee rovanhaar, there is no one to mourn him. Kabir has let go of the self that dies and joined the One, who never dies, so there is nothing to grieve.
Think of a drop of water that has fallen into the ocean. No one can find the drop to say goodbye, because it has become the ocean.
What do you think stays when everything else passes away?
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