जीवन में मरना भला, जो मरि जानै कोय I मरना पहिले जो मरै, अजय अमर सो होय II
Just as the man who has understood the nature of the mirage will not run after the mirage for drinking water, so also, the Jeevanmukta (living liberated) will not run after sensual objects like the worldly-minded people, though the world appears to him. The liberated even while living, he lives in the world, but not of the world.
"Kabir says, the real death is to die while still alive: To become liberated-in-life, to become Jeevanmukta, to become liberated from bondage of worldly life while living in the midst of Maya. He alone is called liberated-in-life, from within whose false ego-sense is eradicated. It's the total abandonment of all mental conditioning, without the least reserve. In other words Kabir wants us to learn and practice the art of death, before we are overpowered by it."
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