III. 74. pratham ek jo apai ap
IN THE beginning was He alone, sufficient unto Himself: the formless, colourless, and unconditioned Being.
Then was there neither beginning, middle, nor end;
Then were no eyes, no darkness, no light;
Then were no ground, air, nor sky; no fire, water, nor earth; no rivers like the Ganges and the Jumna, no seas, oceans, and waves.
Then was neither vice nor virtue; scriptures there were not, as the Vedas and Puranas, nor as the Koran.
Kabir ponders in his mind and says, 'Then was there no activity: the Supreme Being remained merged in the unknown depths of His own self.'
The Guru neither eats nor drinks, neither lives nor dies:
Neither has He form, line, colour, nor vesture.
He who has neither caste nor clan nor anything elsehow may I describe His glory?
He has neither form nor formlessness,
He has no name,
He has neither colour nor colourlessness,
He has no dwelling-place.

     নয় এ মধুর খেলা,
তোমায় আমায় সারাজীবন
            সকাল-সন্ধ্যাবেলা
            নয় এ মধুর খেলা।
কতবার যে নিবল বাতি
গর্জে এল ঝড়ের রাতি,
সংসারের এই দোলায় দিলে
            সংশয়েরি ঠেলা।
বারে বারে বাঁধ ভাঙিয়া
            বন্যা ছুটেছে।
দারুণ দিনে দিকে দিকে
            কান্না উঠেছে।
ওগো রুদ্র, দুঃখে সুখে
এই কথাটি বাজল বুকে-
তোমার প্রেমে আঘাত আছে
            নাইকো অবহেলা।

LOVE'S PAIN sang round my life like the unplumbed sea, and love's joy sang like birds in its flowering groves.