जब मैं था तब हरि नहीं

जब मैं था तब हरि नहीं, अब हरि है मैं नाहिं। सब अंधियारा मिट गया जब दीपक देख्या माहिं॥



When I was there God was'nt, now God is but I am not;all darkness disappeared when I saw Light

To consider what is ephemeral, painful, sad,impure and non-self as everlasting, pleasing,pure and the atman is the root ignorance of human beings.This ignorance leads to the identification of the drik power or all knowing or all seeing power or absolute consciousness or in other words "God" with the darshan power or cognitive power or intellect or buddhi which is also called asmita and which is one of the five afflictions of the mind that restrict the union with God.Patanjali says in chapter 2 shloka 6 ---दृक्दर्शन शक्त्योह एकात्मता एव अस्मिता
Kabir says we need to learn to separate the God from our ego.The light he mentions here is the light of distinction or the light of viveka which is also called vivekakhyati .The solution for liberation is therefore this discriminative knowledge.Patanjali says exactly this in chapter in chapter 1 shloka 26----विवेकखातिः अविप्लवा हानोपायः , which translates as "the solution for liberation is discrimnative knowledge"

Arvind Mishra