Poem 49
जो दीसै सो तो है नाहीं, है सो कहा न जाई बिन देखे परतीत न आवे, कहे न को पतियाना समझ होय तो शब्द चीन्हे, अचरज होय अयाना कोई ध्यावे निराकार को, कोई ध्यावे आकारा या विधि इन दोनों तें न्यारा, जाने जाननहारा वह राग तो लखा न जाई, मात्रा लगे न काना कहें कबीर सो पढ़े न परले, सुरत-निरत जिन जाना
That which you see is not: and for that which is, you have no words. Unless you see, you believe not: what is told you you cannot accept. He who is discerning knows by the word; and the ignorant stands gaping. Some contemplate the Formless, and others meditate on form: but the wise man knows that Brahma is beyond both. That beauty of His is not seen of the eye: that metre of His is not heard of the ear. Kabir says: “He who has found both love and renunciation never descends to death.”