Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Without the One, we could not even be alive at all. And when we truly meet the One, the work of a whole life feels complete.
People say it would be wonderful to live forever. But Kabir points to a deeper secret: unless the small, separate self quietly lets go, real life has not even begun yet.
Kabir opens with a riddle: moo-ay bin jeevan naahee (without dying, there is no life). This is not about the body, it is jeevan mukti, dying to the ego while fully alive, so that true life can begin. Meeting the One (milai ta ghaal aghaa-ee) is when the soul's long labor is fulfilled.
What might 'letting the small self go' look like, without disappearing as a person at all?
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