Kabir Quote: O HOW may I ever express that secret word? O... - iPerceptive

O HOW may I ever express that secret word?
O how can I say He is not like this, and He is like that?
If I say that He is within me, the universe is ashamed:
If I say that He is without me, it is falsehood.
He makes the inner and the outer worlds to be indivisibly one;
The conscious and the unconscious, both are His footstools.
He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed:
There are no words to tell that which He is.

Source: Songs of Kabir - Translated by Tagore

makes worlds manifest inner footstools

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A drop
Melting into the sea,
Everyone can see.
But the sea
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In a drop —
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Do not go to the garden of flowers!
O Friend! go not there;
In your body is the garden of flowers.
Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.

Source: Songs of Kabir - Translated by Tagore

Eons have passed whirling rosary, restless remains the mind
Give up the beads of rosary and rotate the beads of mind.

Source: Dohas of Kabir

O HOW may I ever express that secret word?
O how can I say He is not like this, and He is like that?
If I say that He is within me, the universe is ashamed:
If I say that He is without me, it is falsehood.
He makes the inner and the outer worlds to be indivisibly one;
The conscious and the unconscious, both are His footstools.
He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed:
There are no words to tell that which He is. - Kabir

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