songs of Kabir

I am a materialist-spiritualist
that is their trouble
they cannot conceive of it
they have always thought that materialism is
something diametrically against, opposite, to spiritualism

bring them closer. In fact, that is how it is
your body is not opposed to your soul,
otherwise, why should we be together?

and God is not opposed to the world,
otherwise, why should He create it?
Man is body-soul together
both have to be satisfied...

Kabir says: 'The Master, who is true,
He is all light.'

- Rabindranath Tagore

Soul

Saints explain that the soul is a drop of the Divine Ocean
Separated from her source
she has become caught in the net of illusion
and has taken the mind as her companion

The mind
however
is in the grip of the senses
and dances to their tune

Whatever it does under their influences
the soul has also to reap the consequences

- Maharaj Charan Singh, Spiritual Discourses, 1995