Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Blessed is the One, blessed is the teacher — and blessed too is the humble grain, the food that lets a hungry heart open up like a flower.
And blessed are the wise who understand this; sit with them, and you meet the One who feeds the whole world.
Kabir's grain shabad is a warm defense of ordinary food against those who despise the body's needs to look holy. He puts the humble grain in blessed company — alongside the One and the teacher — because food is a genuine gift that lets the kaval, the heart-lotus, of the hungry bloom. A fed body is not a shameful thing; it's how devotion becomes possible.
How might a shared meal be a kind of sacred thing, not just something ordinary?
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