Kabir - The Moon Shines In My Body lyrics

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Kabir - The Moon Shines In My Body lyrics

The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it: The moon is within me, and so is the sun. The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it. So long as man clamours for the 'I' and the 'Mine', his works are as naught: When all love of the 'I' and the 'Mine' is dead, then the work of the Lord is done. For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge: When that comes, then work is put away. The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers. The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of gra**.