O Friend

O friend! hope for Him whilst you live
O friend! hope for Him whilst you live,
know whilst you live, understand whilst you live:
for in life deliverance abides.

If your bonds be not broken whilst living,
what hope of deliverance in death ?

It is but an empty dream, that the soul shall have union with Him
because it has passed from the body:

If He is found now, He is found then,
If not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death.

If you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.

Bathe in the truth, know the true Guru,
have faith in the true Name!

Kabir says : ‘It is the spirit of the quest which helps;
I am the slave of this Spirit of the quest.’

Kabir Das

Kabir was a well-known Indian mystic poet and saint. His writings influenced Hinduism’s Bhakti movement. He is believed to have lived between the date range 1398-1518 CE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir

Featured Image: Kabir with Namadeva, Raidas and Pipaji. Jaipur, early 19th century by Unknown author – link, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=132931876