Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Picture a buffalo riding a horse out to graze!
The ox is gone, but its cartload has come home on its own!
This one says the deepest reality works by a more wonderful logic.
The last riddles keep the game going. A buffalo rides a horse out to graze. The bull is gone, but its load has come home. Servant and master have swapped places. The work gets done even though the worker is away. The whole order of things is playfully reversed.
Kabir has been building a whole world where the usual rules gently melt. And now he is about to tell us what it all means.
Put all these impossible pictures together, and they shake loose our sureness that we already know how everything works. Think of a magic trick that makes you say, "Wait, how?" The deepest reality, the one these riddles point to, works by a different and more wonderful logic than the surface of things.
Why might it be good, sometimes, to have our certainty about 'how things work' gently shaken up?
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa·How we use AI