Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
My mind and my breath are like the two gourds of a simple stringed instrument, and the Timeless One is its frame.
The string has been tuned so steady it will never snap — and now an endless, unstruck music plays all on its own inside me.
This one says that when your mind and breath are in tune, an inner music plays by itself.
Kabir builds a musical instrument in his imagination. It is a kinguree, a simple string instrument like a small lute. Its two round gourds are man, the mind, and pavan, the breath. The One who lasts through all the ages is its frame.
When the string is thir, steady, it does not snap. Then it plays the anhad, the "unstruck" music. That is music no one plucks. It is the sound of being in tune with the One.
Think of a guitar tuned just right. Sing the right note near it, and its string starts to hum, with no one touching it. The practice becomes music that plays itself once the heart is truly tuned.
Have you ever felt so at peace that a quiet kind of "music" seemed to hum inside you?
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