Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Picture a fish laying its eggs up in a tree!
Picture a small cat carrying off a big dog!
This one says that seen deeply, life is stranger and more wonderful than we think.
Here are more happy impossibilities. A fish gives birth up in a tree. A cat carries off a dog. Fish belong in water, not trees. Cats do not carry away dogs.
Each picture moves something out of the place it "should" be. And that is the point. In a heart that has woken up, things do not stay in their usual spots. The small overcomes the big. Life springs up where it could not. Nothing is where you would expect it.
Kabir is loosening our grip on "this is just how things are." Think of turning a map upside down and suddenly seeing a whole new shape. Life, seen deeply, is stranger and more marvelous than the ordinary rules say.
What's something that seemed impossible until it actually happened?
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