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Aatam anubhav jab bhayo,
tab nhi harsh Vishad.
Chitra deep sam habai rahai,
taji kari bad-Vivad.

When one experiences in heart, there is no pleasure or pain.
He becomes constant like lamp in a picture, there is then no debate or discussion.

Kabir is saying be watcher and everything will disappear. You will find stillness in you.

When you look in, when you watch, you become aware that desire is the cause of your whole misery. Seeing it, desiring disappears – JUST BY SEEING IT, desiring disappears. Seeing that desire never leads anywhere, but that you go on moving in circles and desire goes on goading you in the same repetitive patterns, seeing this – seeing it on your own – desire disappears. And the disappearance of desire is the stillness, the real stillness, Kabir is talking about.

It brings two things to you: great strength, because all the energy that was involved in a thousand and one desires is released. Now energy no more leaks from you; you don’t have any holes for it to leak from. You become a reservoir of great energy. And the second thing: because now there is no noise of desires clashing, conflicting with each other, there is no civil war going on… what to do? To be or not to be? To do this or to do that? When there is no conflict, no desire, when all the storm is gone, the silence that follows the storm, that is the stillness.

When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it.

You will not attain to knowledge, remember. You will become wise, you will become a Buddha. You will not become a great scholar, a great pundit, a great theologian or a philosopher. You will be a Buddha. You will have an innocent kind of knowing: you will know how to live, you will know how to die, you will know how to love – you will know the real art of life. And the real art of life consists only of three things: how to live, how to love, how to die. And these things you will not know from scriptures; these things you will know from your innermost core.