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Apr 4, 2017 · Kabir also known as Kabir Das' was born and brought up in a Muslim weavers family by Niru and Nima. He was a mystic poet and a musician and was one of the important saints of Hinduism and also considered a Sufi by Muslims. He is respected by Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. He was a disciple of Saint swami Ramananda.
- Nirgun Poems: Devotion to The Formless Divine
- Praise to The Guru
- Life & Legends
- The Kabir Lineage & Institutions
- A Beloved Rascal
- Champion of The Downtrodden
- Kabir’s Way with Words
- Couplets from The Bījak
- Popular Bhajans
- Poet’S Praise
Kabir’s poems invite us to rethink our ideas of devotion and of God. While affirming some traditional aspects of worship, he decimates others. This epigram draws out two basic aspects of Kabir’s bhakti: all-inclusivity, and God as protector. So I’m born a weaver, so what? I’ve got the Lord in my heart. Kabir: secure in the arms of Ram, free from ev...
The necessity to seek guidance from a guru or “true teacher” is underscored in the poetry of Kabir, an ideology parallel to traditional Hindu thought. Kabir’s stance on the role of the teacher is clear in this popular couplet that begins with guru gobind dou khade / kake lagoon pay?His answer is definitive: Guru and God are before me. Whose feet sh...
There are two kabirs that we are simultaneously negotiating within our understanding: the Kabir of legend, and the actual man who belonged to early modern times. The latter Kabir, the historical poet-saint, lived in North India at a time when there was political unrest, with the Persian invaders’ rule in decline. Kabir, and Guru Nanak in the follow...
The two kabir maths in varanasi, as well as those in other cities in India, are facilities through which the poet-saint’s teachings are kept alive and current, with dedicated spaces and committed monks and leaders who spread Kabir’s messages to people today. These centers are run by Kabir Panthis, a religious sect of Kabir followers who attempt to ...
The poetry of kabir transcends the orthodoxies of the religious traditions that claim the mystic as their own today. Practices that he challenged include undertaking pilgrimage, visiting places of worship and engaging in ritualistic prayer. Kabir’s focus instead is on popular, practical wisdom, infused with nirgun ideas of guru, God, life and death...
By Dr. Rajani Kant, Director/General Secretary Human Welfare Association, Varanasi The words of kabir relate most directly to the common man, the disadvantaged section of society, the marginalized communities that face struggles and discrimination based on financial status, jati, creed and gender. He demonstrates in his poetry a revolutionary attit...
Kabir’s words were primarily in two literary genres: rhymed couplets (known as doha, sakhi orshalok) and lyric poems (shabda, shabad, pad orbhajan), in addition to the ramaini and folk song forms. The lyric poems, commonly known as bhajans, vary in meter and are usually six to eighteen lines in length, while the couplets are comprised of four half-...
If you know you’re alive, find the essence of life. Life is the sort of guest you don’t meet twice. 10 The three worlds are a cage, virtue and vice a net. Every creature is the prey, and one hunter: Death. 19 Color is born of color. I see all colors one. What color is a living creature? Solve it if you can. 24 Who recognizes Ram’s name, the bars of...
Jhīnī jhīnī bīnī chadariyā Subtle, subtle, subtle is the weave of that cloth. What is the warp what is the weft with what thread did he weave that cloth? Right and left are warp and weft with the thread at the centre he wove that cloth The spinning wheel whirled eight lotuses, five elements, three qualities, he wove that cloth It took ten months to...
“Singing Kabir is always an uplifting experience. Kabir, the no-nonsense mystic poet, talks of yoga (awakening of the kundalini) as the only way to reach God/higher planes of existence. His singular message of looking inwards and finding the entire universe there is timeless. I no longer feel compelled to enter big temples or other such holy places...
Sep 24, 2024 · 1518, Maghar (aged 78) Kabir (born 1440, Varanasi, Jaunpur, India—died 1518, Maghar) was an iconoclastic Indian poet-saint revered by Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. The birth of Kabir remains shrouded in mystery and legend. One tradition holds that he was born in 1398, which would have made him 120 years old at his death.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 15, 2024 · A painting of Kabir, early 19th Century. Kabir’s poems abound with signals to the poora (whole), the ek (one), the saabut (unfragmented), the akhandit (undivided), the sakal (complete ...
- Shabnam Virmani
Mar 8, 2019 · The saint-poet Kabir is one of the most interesting personalities in the history of Indian mysticism. Born near Benaras, or Varanasi, of Muslim parents in 1440, in early life he became a disciple of the celebrated 15th-century Hindu ascetic Ramananda, a great religious reformer and founder of a sect to which millions of Hindus still belong.
- Subhamoy Das
INTRODUCTION. The poet Kabîr, a selection from whose songs is here for the first time offered to English readers, is one of the most interesting personalities in the history of Indian mysticism. Born in or near Benares, of Mohammedan parents, and probably about the year 1440, he became in early life a disciple of the celebrated Hindu ascetic ...
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Apr 2, 2018 · Apr 2, 2018. The following is excerpted from the Introduction to The Bijak of Kabir by Linda Hess and Shukdeo Singh, Oxford University Press: 2002. Join Linda Hess & Sensei Kaz Tanahashi July 6-8 for POETRY OF KABIR & ZEN. There are volumes of legendary biography about Kabir, but the widely accepted “facts” about his life can be summarized ...
