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Chaki chali Gupal ki,
sab jag peesa jhaar.
Rura sabd Kabir ka,
daara paat ukhaar.

Everyone in the world is being grinded completely in the grinding mill of God.
The discourse of Kabir is very unpleasing but it removes the curtain of illusions.

When Kabir says – Everyone in the world is being grinded completely in the grinding mill of God – he means we live in mind. And Everything Exists with the Polar Opposite.

Life is not made of contradictions. It is made of complementaries. Only in the mind, do things appear to be opposite. Only in the mind, you cannot conceive how they both can be one.

This whole existence is a meeting of many dimensions. That is its beauty, its variety, its unending procession of celebration. If you think about emptiness, you cannot think that fullness and emptiness can be the same. But if you experience it you will be amazed that what the mind has been always proposing, and what philosophers have always been supporting, is absolutely absurd.

Only experience is truth, not theoretical considerations about experience. We teach people’s minds contradictions: emptiness and fullness are absolutely contradictive. But when you come to a point of deep meditation, you are suddenly surprised and scared too, scared because of your conditioning – it is not supposed that emptiness and fullness should be one. But existence never bothers what your philosophers say, it goes on its own way.

When you are utterly empty, you are also utterly full, overflowing. In fact, emptiness itself becomes a tremendous fullness. Looked at from one side, you can call it empty; for example, if you remove all the furniture and all the junk from your house which people go on collecting… All are great collectors. If you remove the whole junk, the room, the house is empty of the junk, but in itself, it is for the first time full of itself. All that furniture and all those things were destroying its fullness.

Kabir says once the meditator is bound to come to the point when he has thrown all illusions from the mind, and suddenly he sees that emptiness is there. And also there is a fullness of which logically there is no explanation – but it is not a logical process at all.

This is a great experience on the path of meditation, but the mind will try in every way to create doubt.
When the mind is dropped, and the meditation has arisen, then you see the total. Then you see the whole as it is, all the aspects together. Then emptiness and fullness are not separate, summer and winter are not separate, then spring and fall are not separate. Then you will see that birth and death are two aspects of the same process. Then happiness and unhappiness are not opposites, they are joined together; like a valley and a mountain, they are together.

And when you see this togetherness of life, choice stops.