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Jaise Til Mein Tel Hai, Jyon Chakmak Mein Aag
Tera Sayeen Tujh Mein Hai, Tu Jaag Sake To Jaag 




Translation
Like seed contains the oil,  fire in flint stone
Your temple seats the Divine, realize if you can

My Understanding
What is real and how is it veiled?  


This yearning for the Truth is the basic search of everyone.  We all want to know what God really is.  Kabir in this doha reveals the secret.   He unfolds the mystery in a very simple way. He takes the example of the anti-seed which contains the oil. However, when we see the seed, we don't see the oil.  It is only seen when energy is used to extract the oil from the seed. Same way fire is not visible when we look at the flint stone. However, vigorous rubbing manifests fire which is already hidden in the flint.  Same way, Kabir asserts, that our body - the temple - seats the Divine.  This divinity is our true self.  However, due to our ignorance, we are unaware of this reality.  Kabir challenges us in this doha to shed the veils of ignorance and awaken to realize our true self.

This doha also reminds of Swami Vivekananda, who said, "Man is potentially divine and the sole purpose of this life is to discover that divinity. The time to do is here and now".   

Rajender Krishan
Visual Art by Simi Nallaseth Views: 33078        Comments: 20       
Comments on this Doha
Comment In this Doha,kabir wants to say that in this world each and every person wandering here and there in the search of God.He doesn't know that God is present within him,for whom he is searching outside.When he reaches near to this,one can say that now he awakened.
Dr. Prakash kachhwal
04/29/2013
Comment Somewhat nearer translation could be

As sesame has Oil and fire is in Flintstone
Your God is in you, wake up if you can
Vijay
04/18/2013
Comment i will try to follow these lines in my life
leena
03/25/2013
Comment The key is Jagna. Reminds me the bhajan: uth jaag musafir ....
This is journey of soul and we forget about the journey part and live here as if this is our Home. No this is only a Motel.

If one wakes up what happens? Then one becomes detached and works on Liberation. Path? There is no path to the truth as J. Krishnamurti says.
Ishwargarg@yahoo.com
Ishwar Garg
02/10/2013
Comment i wanna know all the explanation of kabirdas'dohe sakhi
bimol saikhom
09/09/2012
Comment The real meaning is that jab tak tum keval bahari awaran ko dekhoge tab tak kebal tum ho, aur jis din tumne us bahar ko mita diya us din tumhare aur parmaatma ke bich me kuch bhi nahi rah jayega.

Rajan
09/08/2012
Comment jag sake to jag means if u can wake up wake by any means.. kabir is not suggesting any way hear.. its extremely difficult to a sleeping person to wake up himself. usingh97@yahoo.com
upendra
09/06/2012
Comment Tinka lekha nibadaya, jin satguru pakdi baah!

Only those soul's accounts are nullified, who have got a True Master / Poorn Guru.

In all walks of life, we needed someone to guide us to teach us, similiarly when it comes to Sprituality, we need a guru who has achieved Enlightenment and is capable of taking us as well on that path.
We must find a True Master in our life. Even if we dont find one, but this try and effort will make our life worth finding one.

WE SOULS ARE LIKE SHEEP, WHO ARE NOT AWARE OF WHICH WAY TO GO..! AND GURU IS LIKE A SHEPHERD WHO KNOWS THE WAY AND ALSO TAKES RESPONSIBILITY OF TAKING US TO OUR HOME/DESTINATION IF WE SURRENDER OURSELVES.
Gaurav
07/13/2012
Comment Sant Kabeer represents an idiom in Hindi —
“Gagar Mein Sagar bharana”. Now, it depends on reader that how much water S/he can take? Commendable effort. Best wishes
Santosh Pant
12/30/2011
Comment This Doha is so meaningful. It has made me developed.
Ananya
10/09/2011
Comment How simple was this bhakt Kabeer and how enlightened he was, one can visulise from his quotes which are so simple to read but how deep is its meaning. No wonder if one goes through his quotes and their meaning regularly can cleanse his innerself.
Ranjita
04/30/2011
Comment Dear Friends
The very art of interpretation is keeping it simple and look into your own life to know what it means, rather than thinking out all the possibilities.
Simplest meaning is : Jaise Til mein tel hai - Til ke andar tel hai yeh koi dekh nahi sakta, sahi tarike se til se tel ko alag kiya jaa sakta hai, Jaise Chakmak mein Aag - Chakmak pattar se aag aag nikala jaa sakta hai

ussi tarah, bhagwaan hamare andar hi hai, sahi soch vichaar aur karmon se usse paaya jaa sakta hai

Today people run to Temples, pay god, go to babas pay them heftily to Get MOKSHA (getting a place near to God), whereas you can easily get MOKSHA by being good, doing good deeds, since God is inside you, Feel your SOUL, then you will surely feel being near to GOD.


Comments are welcome
My Sincere thanks to Shri.Rajender Krishan and Simi Nallaseth for enlightning this Networked World.
Sundar
04/01/2011
Comment I might want to add something here. As I understand Great, Kabir says here that as the oil is intricately mixed in seed (particularly sesame; as it is of no use, once the oil has been taken out) that it can't be seen through eyes only a procedure of oil extraction can separate 2, leaving the remaining seed of no use. In the same way Kabir says that God is inseparable, invisible to an individual and reside in every organism as a energy source called SOUL, which is invisible, and inseparable (till death) and once it leaves the body, body is of no use.

thanks
manish
02/11/2011
Comment Kabir Dass ji in his doha saying that God is inside our body but He is hidden like oil hidden in seeds. So we should find the God inside our body. We should not go anywhere i.e. Rivers Ganga, Jamuna, Tamples, Forest to find the God. For this purpose we should find perfect Guru who can tell us about God and ways to find the God in our body. Kabir Saheb in his Shabad "Meri Najaro mei moti aaya hai" clearly mentioned about the way to find God i.e. "Hai til ke til til ke bhitar birle sadhu paya hai". So without the help of Guru, we can not find God.
Laxmi Narain
12/23/2010
Comment This is true and good interpretation. All true religions accept that the body is the temple of God
Haridev
10/20/2010
Comment Sreenivas,
Your own interrogation: "Whatever I am is not really I am?" is worth pondering. The core of this doha is also same as it attempts to discover the divine self within. And the divinity or the true self can only be discovered when you transcend the bounds and limitations of this body which makes the mundane "I".
Raj
09/09/2010
Comment Raj, I didn't understand properly, how can we shed the ignorance to realize ourself? I am just wondering, whatever I am is not really I am? what should we have to shed out? please clarify me.
Sreenivas
09/09/2010
Comment Yeah better state the right interpretation if you know it Jin...honestly, I'd love to understand it..thanks in advance!
Sandy
08/10/2010
Comment Simply stating that it is wrong means nothing. Per you, what is the correct interpretation, you should be magnanimous to post that.
Raj
08/04/2010
Comment This is wrong interpretation of this Doha
Jin
08/04/2010
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Index of Dohas in English
  1. Looking at the grinding stone
  2. I searched for the crooked
  3. Tomorrows work do today
  4. Speak such words
  5. Slowly slowly O mind
  6. Give me so much O God
  7. In vain is the eminence
  8. Like seed contains the oil
  9. Begging is like perishing
  10. Neither illusion nor the mind
  11. Kabira in the market place
  12. Kabir's mind got cleansed
  13. Reading books everyone died
  14. In anguish everyone
  15. Guru is the washerman
  16. Alive one sees
  17. Inexpressible is the story of Love
  18. Worry is the bandit
  19. Don't be so proud and vain
  20. Don't be so proud and vain - 2
  21. By my doing nothing happens
  22. Like the pupil in the eye
  23. When you were born
  24. First the pangs of separation
  25. With the ocean set ablaze
  26. Kabir, save the wealth ...
  27. Hope lives in a dying world
  28. If I say one, It is not
  29. Kabir, This is the abode of love
  30. The Rosary rotating by the hand
  31. Eons have passed whirling rosary
  32. The rosary made of wooden
  33. When "I" was then Hari was not
  34. Ages have passed shaving
  35. What harm have the hair done
  36. Arise from slumber O Kabir
  37. O Kabir, Your Hut
  38. He alone's the Warrior
  39. Guru the Potter ...
  40. Liberation Comes Not in Seclution
Index of Dohas in Hindi
  1. Chalti Chakki Dekh Kar
  2. Bura Jo Dekhan Mein Chala
  3. Kaal Kare So Aaj Kar
  4. Aisee Vani Boliye
  5. Dheere Dheere Re Mana
  6. Sayeen Itna Deejiye
  7. Bada Hua To Kya Hua
  8. Jaise Til Mein Tel Hai
  9. Mangan Maran Saman Hai
  10. Maya Mari Na Man Mara
  11. Kabira Khara Bazaar Mein
  12. Kabir Man Nirmal Bhaya
  13. Pothi Padh Padh Jag Mua
  14. Dukh Mein Simran Sab Kare
  15. Gur Dhobi Sikh Kapda
  16. Jeevat Samjhe Jeevat Bujhe
  17. Akath Kahani Prem Ki
  18. Chinta Aisee Dakini
  19. Kabira Garv Na Keejiye
  20. Kabira Garv Na Keejiye - 2
  21. Kabir Kiya Kutch Na Hote Hai
  22. Jyon Naino Mein Putli
  23. Jab Tun Aaya Jagat Mein
  24. Pehle Agan Birha Ki
  25. Aag Jo Lagi Samand Mein
  26. Kabir So Dhan Sanchiye
  27. Aasa Jive Jag Mare
  28. Ek Kahun To Hai Nahin
  29. Kabir Yeh Ghar Prem Ka
  30. Maala To Kar Mein Phire
  31. Maala Pherat Jug Bhaya
  32. Kabir Maala Kaath Kee
  33. Jab Mein Tha Tab Hari Nahin
  34. Moond Munddavat Din Gaye
  35. Keson Kaha Bigadia
  36. Kabir Soota Kya Kare
  37. Kabira Teri Jhompri
  38. Kabir Soyee Soorma
  39. Guru Kumhar Sikh Kumbh Hai
  40. Shune Padiya Na Chootiyo

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