One of the most beautiful poems about seeking the truth and actually finding it by Kabir (translated by Rabindranath Tagore):
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 grass.
axinia
1000 petals by axinia 
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When all love of the I and mine are dead…. you can actually see this attitude with the senior citizens. They are so mature without having to be all important!!
Destination Infinity
interesting note, DI, thanks!
An excellent poem.
This is really a wonderful poem which sums up the life. The day when the feel of mine & I dies, the job of the lord was done is perfect one 🙂
Kanagu and DI, it is really interesting how everyone finds the gem for himself – for me the best line in this poem was the one I set up in the title…
“The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within itself” – that is so typical human!!!….
Wonderful Axinia!!
“The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers”
thats the simple way of putting the laws of Nature or should i say the way Nature works!!!
Loved it…wonder how the actual Kabir poem is…..Kabir poems are generally nice and rhyming easy to hear and memorize coz his time, he wrote them for the common man in a language and style wherein even a uneducated person could understand and grasp the content!
Axinia,
Very Beautiful. Thanks for sharing it.
Molly
the picture looks like a painting 🙂
oh, thank you! )