Hinduism

Songs of Kabir, XXXIX

O friend! this body is His lyre; He tightens its strings, and
draws from it the melody of Brahma.
If the strings snap and the keys slacken, then to dust must this
instrument of dust return:
Kabîr says: "None but Brahma can evoke its melodies."

Source Songs of Kabir, trad. Rabindranath Tagore, 1915, Project Gutenberg #6519 · Contents