When Real Light Fills You, Distractions Can't Get In
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
**K** — imagine a single ray of light slipping into the lotus flower of your heart, and the whole flower opening to it.
When that light comes in, the dim, flickering pull of the world's shiny distractions simply can't get in — there's no room left for it. And once you catch even the faintest sweet scent of that inner flower, something wonderful happens: you fall quiet. It's too full to explain. You could try to say it, but who could really understand until they've felt it themselves?
The letter Kakka opens a luminous verse. Kiran (a ray of divine light) enters kamal (the heart-lotus). Sas is the moonlight of Maya — the world's cool, borrowed, illusory glow of distractions and cravings — which “cannot enter the basket of the mind” once real light fills it. Light crowds out the dimmer glow simply by being brighter. Then kusam ras — the nectar-fragrance of the inner flower — brings the akah, the “unsayable.” Kabir keeps returning to this: the deepest experience overflows language. Not because it's secret, but because it's the kind of thing you only know by tasting.
Have you ever been so happy or amazed that you couldn't find the words to explain it to someone?
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