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Jaata hai so jaan de,
teri dasi na jaye.
Dariya kere naw jyon,
ghana milange aaye.

One who goes, let him go, what is your concern.
As the boat in the river, many more will come to you.

Kabir says that Be An Observer, without any judgement.

The observer is observed only when we are observing ourselves alone. So long as we observe anything else, such as our anger, our emotions, our thoughts or any other phenomena, we are dividing ourselves separating ourselves off as an observer distinct from whatever we are observing.

This is how our ego rises, stands and flourishes. By observing, perceiving, attending to or being aware of anything other than ourselves we are seemingly limiting ourselves as a finite observer separate from whatever we are observing, and this finite observer is what is called ‘ego’. It is a false and illusory form of self-awareness — an awareness of ourselves as something finite rather than as the one infinite and indivisible awareness that we really are.

The true awareness that we actually are is always aware of nothing other than itself, so it can never divide itself into subject and object — an observing subject and separate objects or phenomena observed by it. The subject that observes anything other than itself is our ego, which is not what we actually are, so we can be aware of ourselves as we actually are only by observing nothing other than ourselves.

This is the precious secret that Kabir has revealed to us. His teachings are so simple and clear. All we need to understand is this: by observing or being aware of anything other than ourselves we rise, stand and flourish as this ego, and by observing ourselves alone we subside and merge back into the pure, indivisible and other-less self-awareness that we actually are.