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.
অচেনাকে ভয় কী আমার ওরে। অচেনাকেই চিনে চিনে উঠবে জীবন ভরে। জানি জানি আমার চেনা কোনো কালেই ফুরাবে না, চিহ্নহারা পথে আমায় টানবে অচিন-ডোরে। ছিল আমার মা অচেনা, নিল আমায় কোলে। সকল প্রেমই অচেনা গো, তাই তো হৃদয় দোলে। অচেনা এই ভুবন-মাঝে কত সুরেই হৃদয় বাজে, অচেনা এই জীবন আমার-- বেড়াই তারি ঘোরে।
