THE FIRST Kabir festival (Jan 21 to 23), is being organised in Mumbai to draw and connect the youth and other diverse audiences to the world of Kabir.
Sant Kabir has been a great mystic poet and revolutionary Bhakti movement saint of India. The name Kabir means 'The Great' a name of God in the Qur'an.
As an abandoned child, he was brought up in a family of Muslim weavers Niru and his wife, Nima at Lehartara, situated in Varanasi. Young Kabir took to the weaver's trade as a vocation. He had great spiritual leanings right from an early age and was against the ritualistic aspects of various religions. He spurned the prevalent societal caste system and idol worship and subscribed for bhakti and Sufi ideas.
Kabirs spiritual message can be summed as two tenets as follows:
His work and messages have influenced Sikhism a great deal and been incorporated in the scripture of Shri Guru Granth Sahib.
Kabir's legacy is today carried forward by the Kabir Panth (Path of Kabir), a religious community that recognises him as its founder and is one of the Sant Mat sects. Its members, known as Kabir panthis, are estimated to be around 9,600,000. They are spread over North and Central India, as well as dispersed with the Indian diaspora across the world, informs Wikipedia.
Here are important Kabir quote to contemplate.
Sant Kabir has been a great mystic poet and revolutionary Bhakti movement saint of India. The name Kabir means 'The Great' a name of God in the Qur'an.
As an abandoned child, he was brought up in a family of Muslim weavers Niru and his wife, Nima at Lehartara, situated in Varanasi. Young Kabir took to the weaver's trade as a vocation. He had great spiritual leanings right from an early age and was against the ritualistic aspects of various religions. He spurned the prevalent societal caste system and idol worship and subscribed for bhakti and Sufi ideas.
Kabirs spiritual message can be summed as two tenets as follows:
- Life is interplay of personal soul (Jivatma) and God (Paramatma).
- Salvation is the process of union of Jivatma with Paramatma.
His work and messages have influenced Sikhism a great deal and been incorporated in the scripture of Shri Guru Granth Sahib.
Kabir's legacy is today carried forward by the Kabir Panth (Path of Kabir), a religious community that recognises him as its founder and is one of the Sant Mat sects. Its members, known as Kabir panthis, are estimated to be around 9,600,000. They are spread over North and Central India, as well as dispersed with the Indian diaspora across the world, informs Wikipedia.
Here are important Kabir quote to contemplate.
- "All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop."
- List! en to th e secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all."
- "Love doesnt grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be loved. one must first know how to give (unconditional) love.
- "Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain. "
- Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
- Dont go to the garden of flowers! / O friend! go not there;/ In your body is the garden of flowers./ Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, / and there gaze on the infinite beauty.
- If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
- Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
- When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over.
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