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Sayeen Itna Deejiye,
Ja Mein Kutumb Samaye.
Main Bhi Bhookha Na Rahun,
Sadhu Na Bhookha Jaye.

Kabir is saying God is a hunger, a thirst within us. It cannot be satisfied by theories. No scriptures can quench this thirst….

The divine is a hunger, a thirst within us. It cannot be satisfied by theories. No scriptures can quench this thirst; but if they can just intensify the thirst, they are doing enough. Just through preaching sermons no master can ever quench this thirst, but if he can intensify it for you, that is a great blessing. And this is what the master does; he does not quench your thirst, he intensifies it. He does not give you satisfaction, he makes you more dissatisfied. He does not leave you at rest, because rest is just death. He makes you more restless, and pushes you into an unknown journey of a mystical nature. He lights a fire in your being so that every pore of it can grow thirsty, every breath becomes dissatisfied, your whole life becomes transformed into a hunger. You become restless and perturbed until that hunger is satisfied.

When you are around a real master you develop an intense restlessness, while near a pseudo-master you merely receive information. The pseudo-master will convert you into a pundit, you will start knowing many things without really knowing them. Scriptures will settle in your heart, but you will have no contact with the truth. Contact with truth happens only when the thirst crystallizes to such an extent that you become thirst itself. When the thirst crystallizes so much that you don’t even feel that you are thirsty, rather you feel that you are a thirst, that every fiber of your being is on fire – and the moment every fiber of your being becomes aflame, the showers come. And that is the moment of revolution, of transformation. In, that very moment you are in contact with truth.

Coming to a master you will receive pain – pain because you are hungry, you are thirsty, you are unfulfilled, because you don’t have that which you are yearning for. Near the master you will receive no consolation. In fact he will take away all your consolations. He will never tell you that everything is okay, that everything will be all right.

The master is a revolution; he will disturb all your arrangements for sleep, and make you aware that nothing is all right, that everything is a mess, that whatever you have achieved so far is all rubbish, that you have not taken even the first step toward anything of value, that your hands are full of stones while you are clinging to the golden illusion that you are carrying diamonds.

He makes you more restless, and pushes you into an unknown journey of a mystical nature. He lights a fire in your being so that every pore of it can grow thirsty, every breath becomes dissatisfied, your whole life becomes transformed into a hunger. You become restless and perturbed until that hunger is satisfied.