The shadows of evening fall thick and deep,
and the darkness
of love
envelops the body and the mind.
Open the window to the west,
and be lost in the sky of love;
Drink the sweet honey
that steeps the petals of the lotus of
the heart.
Receive the waves in your body:
what splendor is in the
region of the sea!
Hark! the sounds of conches and bells are rising.
Kabīr says: "O
brother, behold!
the Lord is in this vessel of my body."
-- Kabīr, translated by Rabindranath Tagore
