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Kushal kushal jo puchhta,
jag me raha na koye.
Jara muai na bhay mua,
Kushal kahan te hoye.

You repeatedly ask others their well being when no body remains in the world
Ageing has not died, fear is not dead, how can then there be any wellbeing.

Kabir is saying – If you are interested in yourself, then this is precisely the place for you. If you are interested in your own wellbeing, in your own wholeness and health, if you are interested in becoming a blossomed flower, then forget all about God – because in that blossoming you will know what godliness is. When your fragrance is released then you will know what godliness is.
Godliness is your ultimate flowering, your final flowering; your destiny fulfilled is what godliness is all about.

Godliness is within and without because only godliness is. In fact to say “God is” is a repetition because God never “is not.” Godliness is the very isness of existence. We can say, “The house is” because once, the house was not, and once again the house will not be. To say, “The house is” is okay, because the “is not” is possible. We can say “The man is” but we cannot say “God is,” because only it is – always has been, always will be. Godliness is the very isness, Godliness is existence itself.

Then why say the word God at all? Why use it? We use it very symbolically, to indicate something. When we say “God is” we mean existence is not without a soul. We mean that existence is not dead. We mean that existence is alive, throbbing with love, compassion, consciousness, conscience; that existence is intimate; that there is a possibility of addressing existence and there is a possibility of getting the response. When we say “God is” we mean that existence allows the possibility of a dialogue. You can have a dialogue with it; you can call it “thou” and it will not be meaningless; and you can be in such a state that prayerfulness becomes possible, that communion becomes possible.

That’s all the word God carries. Existence is not like a dead rock; it is an alive flower. It will respond to you. If you love it, love will flow toward you. If you move toward it, it will move toward you. If you seek it, it will seek you. Existence is not careless. If you are in love with existence, existence is in love with you. That’s all that we mean when we call existence divine or when we say “God is.” Remember it. It is a poetic way of saying a truth. It is not a fact. It is poetry, it is romance. And religion is romance with existence.