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Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
Kabir
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Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
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Kabir Sahib
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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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I do not quote from the scriptures I simply see what I see.
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