Kabir Das Poems – Kabir kab se bhaye vairagi – English

Here is the English transalation of Kabir Das poem Kabir kab se bhaye vairagi.

Gorakhnath asks Kabir:

“Tell me, O Kabir, when did your vocation begin? Where did your

love have its rise?”

Kabir answers:

“When He whose forms are manifold had not begun His play: when

there was no Guru, and no disciple: when the world was not

spread out: when the Supreme One was alone—

Then I became an ascetic; then, O Gorakh, my love was drawn to

Brahma.

Brahma did not hold the crown on his head; the god Vishnu was not

anointed as king; the power of Shiva was still unborn; when I

was instructed in Yoga.

Reference: Project Gutenberg