Activity

Kaga kay chhipay ke,
kiyo hans ka bhesh.
Chalo hans ghar aapne,
lehu dhani ka desh.

The crow has concealed his body, has kept the dress of swan
Go to your own house swan, adopt the place of the Almighty.

Kabir says – From the smallest blade of grass to the biggest star, everybody is needed, equally needed, in their originality. Be original. There is no hierarchy in existence. The grass blade and the star have no inequality; they are equal. Existence supports them both in the same way. It makes no discrimination. To the sinners, to the saints, it is the same. The sun shines for all, the flowers bloom for all, the birds sing for all. It is our home!

To be original simply means just as you were born — fresh, uncluttered by any garbage, theology, religion, politics, etiquette, manners. As you grow up, around you much garbage grows. The society helps to grow it; the whole educational system exists to support it. By the time you are still young, you have already lost your original home. You know so much, but you don’t know anything in fact. You pretend so much, you may even believe in your pretensions, but that does not make them true. The whole society up to now has been creating hypocrites.

The original man is just the polar opposite of the hypocrite. He is simply natural, unpredictable. The hypocrite is predictable. You know what he is going to do – his reactions, his responses. You know his future, because he is a false entity not a living plant. You cannot predict in what directions the branches will go, on which branches the flowers will come. Everything is unpredictable, but with a plastic plant everything is known and predictable. Society wants you to be predictable, because its whole business depends on predictability.

The original man is simply a natural man who has survived the conditioning of the society, the manners of the society; who has asked everything before accepting anything; who has inquired into the truth of anything before accepting it. He is never a hypocrite.