नींद निशानी मौत की, उठ कबीरा जाग I और रसायन छाँड़िके, नाम रसायन लाग II
Your mind and heart need to build a relationship slowly, somewhat like a pet and its master. At first, your mind needs to hold your heart tightly on a leash. Your heart screams, “I must have this! I must go there!” And your mind says, “Calm down. We talked this over already and we both agreed you don’t need to.” The heart screams, “But now I feel I need to! If I don’t, who knows what will happen!” And the mind says, “That’s because you are a heart. Hearts feel that way. But I am a mind and I know we will survive even if you don’t.” Eventually, the heart learns the paths and gallops along them with ease. It becomes a mindful heart.
Beyond the physical sleep, there is an another type of "sleep"; which is subtle, seemingly endless and dreadful delusion, illusion or deception of Maya, egotism, material consciousness etc. The sense-bent, deluded or conditioned mind is Maya. Once caught in the vortex of Maya, one loses control over his senses and plunges into the pitch darkness of ignorance. Kabir says, in this horrific state of endless slumber are "asleep" the Jeeva (individual beings) of entire world for countless incarnations. It is this endless slumber from which Kabir urges us to awake and arise. Just as one washes his dirty body and clothes with water and soap, the mind must also be cleansed of the impurities ("sleep of ignorance") by the soothing waters of the Lord's Name so that our false ego does not clog the Soul. The elixir of Lord's name is the only antidote to the Maya addicted mind."
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