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Nirjani so kahiye ka,
kahat Kabir lajay
Andhey aage nachte,
kala akarath jaye.

What should be said of an unknown, Kabir is shy in saying
Dancing before a blind, the art also becomes useless.

Why Kabir says I am shy in saying? Because everyone is interested in knowledge but not knowing. Knowledge means of objective world to know others and knowing means to know that you cannot know yourself. You are unknowable. You are Mystery.

The deepest mystery of existence is the phenomenon of knowledge. You can know everything except your own self. The knower cannot be known because to know something means to reduce it to an object. The very process of knowledge depends on duality. I can know you because I am here, inside, and you are there, outside. You become an object. But I cannot know myself because I cannot make myself an object. I cannot encounter my self in any objective way. I cannot put myself in front of me. And if I could put myself in front of me then that which is put in front of me would not be myself. How can that which can be put in front of me be myself? Really, the inner one which will look at it will remain myself.

Self is subjective and this subjectivity cannot be made objective. Hence, the paradox: that which knows all cannot know itself; that which is the source of all knowledge remains unknowable.

He says self-knowledge is impossible. You have heard, it has been preached, it has been told everywhere, “Know thyself.” But how can you know your self? You can know everything other than you. One point will always remain unknown, unknowable. That point is you.

He is not a preacher, he is knower so he says that I am too shy to say that You Are Unknowable.