Acharya Prashant explains that to understand what Kabir is saying, the first prerequisite is fearlessness. This fearlessness is not bravery or courage, which is the other side of the duality of fear. True fearlessness is an insight that goes beyond both fear and its opposite. It is the understanding of fear itself, which reveals its true nature. This fearlessness is consciousness. Kabir is ready to shatter the imaginary world of principles, concepts, and rituals that people have built around religion for a sense of security. He clarifies that he will sing the praises of the formless (Nirgun), which is an attempt to describe the indescribable. The speaker elaborates on the symbolic language used by Kabir. "Mool-kamal dridh aasan bandhu ji" (I will firmly establish my posture in the root lotus) means to be firmly established in one's source. "Ulti pawan chadhunga" (I will make the wind rise upwards) signifies reversing the natural, outward flow of consciousness and turning it inward, away from material tendencies. This is a rebellion against the laws of matter. Similarly, "man-mamta ko thir kar laun ji, panchon tattva milaunga" (I will stabilize the mind and attachment, and merge the five elements) means that when the mind and the sense of 'mine' (mamta) are stabilized, the five elements, which represent the diversity of the world, merge into one. The world's diversity is a creation of the unstable mind; for a stable mind, the five elements are one. Explaining the lines about Ida, Pingala, and Sushumna, the speaker states these are not physical channels but symbols. Ida and Pingala represent the dualities of life, like hot and cold, masculine and feminine, sun and moon. An ordinary person's life swings between these dualities. Sushumna is the middle path, the state of the witness, which is beyond both. To bathe at the Triveni, the confluence of these three, is to be free from the dualities and their associated karma. This is liberation. Kabir is saying that he has understood the truth of all three and has thus been purified. He has understood that all three are concepts arising from the mind. Kabir's statement, "Paanch pachison pakad mangaun ji, ek hi dor lagaunga" (I will catch hold of the five and twenty-five and tie them with a single thread), is interpreted as understanding the one reality behind the five senses and their twenty-five manifestations. That one thread is attention or meditation. Kabir says he is not concerned with the five or the twenty-five; he knows the one, which is his power of understanding. He says that at the peak of nothingness (shunya-shikhar), the unstruck sound (anahad) plays, and he will make others listen to the thirty-six ragas. This means that in the ultimate silence, all ragas are present. The speaker concludes that Kabir was an iconoclast who broke all symbols to point towards the direct, immediate truth.
