He Himself is the sun, the light, and the lighted.

Kabir

Songs of Kabir, tr. Rabindranath Tagore (1915), page 51


Kabir does not separate the light from what it falls on. The same one, he says, is the sun, and the light, and the thing lit — three names for what a visitor usually sees as three separate things. Nothing here is described from outside. The light and the lit are not two.

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Da biblioteca: Songs of Kabir, Kabir

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