Where there is desire, there is no name; and where there is no name, there is desire. These two things never meet—like the sun and the night never meet in one place.

Kabir suggests that desire and divine remembrance (Naam) are fundamentally opposed forces. Where desire exists, the truth (Naam) is absent, and conversely, where the truth is present, desire cannot survive. He uses the metaphor of the sun and the night to illustrate that these two states—the worldly cycle and the spiritual state—can never coexist in the same place or time. This couplet is a deep contemplation on the impossibility of fulfilling worldly desires while simultaneously achieving spiritual liberation.