This deliverance is accomplished by the union or identification of the soul with God.

“Remove the difference between thyself and God and thou shalt be
united with him.... 
Him whom I sought without me, now I find within me.... 
Know God:  by knowing him thou shalt become as he. 
When the soul and God are blended no one can distinguish them."[659]

But if he sometimes writes like Sankara, he also has the note of the Psalms and Gospels.  He has the sense of sin:  he thinks of God in vivid personal metaphors, as a lord, a bridegroom, a parent, both father and mother.

“Save me, O God, though I have offended thee....  I forgot him who made me and did cleave unto strangers.”  “Sing, sing, the marriage song.  The sovereign God hath come to my house as my husband....  I obtained God as my bridegroom; so great has been my good fortune.”

    “A mother beareth not in mind
    All the faults her son committeth. 
    O, God, I am thy child: 
    Why blottest thou not out my sins?” ...

    “My Father is the great Lord of the Earth;
    To that Father how shall I go?"[660]

The writings of Kabir’s disciples such as the Sukh Nidhan attributed to Srut Gopal (and written according to Westcott about 1729) and the still later Amar Mul, which is said to be representative of the modern Kabirpanth, show a greater inclination to Pantheism, though caste and idolatry are still condemned.  In these works, which relate the conversion of Dharm Das afterwards one of Kabir’s principal followers, Kabir is identified with the Creator and then made a pantheistic deity much as Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita.[661] He is also the true Guru whose help is necessary for salvation.  Stress is further laid on the doctrine of Sabda, or the divine word.  Hindu theology was familiar with this expression as signifying the eternal self-existent revelation contained in the Vedas.  Kabir appears to have held that articulate sound is an expression of the Deity and that every letter, as a constituent of such sound, has a meaning.  But these letters are due to Maya:  in reality there is no plurality of sound.  Ram seems to have been selected as the divine name, because its brevity is an approach to this unity, but true knowledge is to understand the Letterless One, that is the real name or essence of God from which all differentiation of letters has vanished.  Apart from some special metaphors the whole doctrine set forth in the Sukh Nidhan and Amar Mul is little more than a loose Vedantism, somewhat reminiscent of Sufiism.[662]

The teaching of Kabir is known as the Kabirpanth.  At present there are both Hindus and Mohammedans among his followers and both have monasteries at Maghar where he is buried.  The sect numbers in all about a million.[663] It is said that the two divisions have little in common except veneration of Kabir and do not intermix, but they both observe the practice of partaking of sacred meals, holy water,[664] and consecrated betel nut.  The Hindu section is again divided into two branches known as Father (Bap) and Mother (Mai).