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Bhitar to bheda nahi,
bahir kathai anek.
Jo payi bhitar lakhi parai,
bhitar bhahir ek.

There is no difference inside, there are many outside.
If you see him from inside, it is one from inside and outside.

Kabir is saying that we are searching for God outside and he is inside of you as emptiness.
If God comes to your home and knocks, will you be there to receive him? You will be somewhere else; you are never at home. You go on wandering all over the world, except to your home. Where is your home? Inside you, where the center of consciousness is, is your home. You are never there, because only in deep meditation are you there. And when you are deep in meditation you can immediately recognize God; whether he comes in the body or bodiless makes no difference. If you are at home you will recognize the knock. But if you are not at home, what can be done? God will knock and you will not be there.

Why you are not at home?
Because you want to forget yourself? Why are you so bored with yourself? Why can’t you live with yourself? Why can’t you be alert and at ease? What is the problem? The problem is that whenever you are alert, alone, you feel Empty; you feel as if you are nobody. You feel a nothingness inside and that nothingness becomes the abyss. You get scared, you start running from it.

Deep inside you, you are an abyss, and that’s why you go on escaping. Buddha called that abyss no-self, anatta. There is nobody inside. When you look it is a vast expansion, but nobody is there: just inner sky, an infinite abyss, endless, beginningless. The moment you look you get dizzy, you start running, you immediately escape. But where can you escape to? Wherever you go that emptiness will be with you because it is you. It is your Tao, your nature. One has to come to terms with it.

One has to come to terms with the inner Emptiness. And once you come to terms with it, suddenly the emptiness changes its nature: it becomes the all. Then it is not empty, not negative; it is the most positive thing in existence. But acceptance is the door.