Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
There is only One. And the One is found by the True Guru's grace — a gift that is always here, waiting for an open heart.
Just reading the scriptures, by itself, is make-believe, friends — it doesn't quiet the ache in the heart.
But steady your heart on the One even for a single breath, and you'll see the One right there, face to face, present before you.
Kabir opens with a sharp but precise critique: "the Vedas and the Scriptures are only make-believe" — not that scripture is worthless, but that reading about the One, as a substitute for meeting the One, "does not relieve the anxiety of the heart." Information cannot heal the ache that only direct experience heals. And the alternative is astonishingly near: center the heart "even for just a breath," and you "see the Lord face-to-face." The One is not at the end of a library but one breath of true attention away.
Have you ever known a lot about something yet still felt the ache of not having actually met it?
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