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बहुरि नहिं आवना या देस ॥ जो जो गए बहुरि नहि आए, पठवत नाहिं सॅंस ॥ १॥ सुर नर मुनि अरु पीर औलिया, देवी देव गनेस ॥ २॥ धरि धरि जनम सबै भरमे हैं ब्रह्मा विष्णु महेस ॥ ३॥ जोगी जङ्गम औ संन्यासी, दीगंबर दरवेस ॥ ४॥ चुंडित, मुंडित पंडित लोई, सरग रसातल सेस ॥ ५॥ ज्ञानी, गुनी, चतुर अरु कविता, राजा रंक नरेस ॥ ६॥ कोइ राम कोइ रहिम बखानै, कोइ कहै आदेस ॥ ७॥ नाना भेष बनाय सबै मिलि ढूऊंढि फिरें चहुँ देस ॥ ८॥ कहै कबीर अंत ना पैहो, बिन सतगुरु उपदेश ॥ ९॥
इति
The Poet
कबीर
Kabir
1398 · 1518
To speak of Kabir within the ordinary parameters of literary biography is almost impossible. Born in the fifteenth century to a Muslim weaver's family in the sacred Hindu city of Banaras, he became a voice that refused to be domesticated by any temple, mosque, or scholarly apparatus. Kabir claimed no scripture, no caste, and no sacred language as his exclusive property. He stood at the loom of reality and wove his dohas (devastating two-line couplets) from the raw thread of direct spiritual encounter. His critique was not merely religious but civilizational. He asked with the serene ferocity of an awakened mind why human beings had chosen the architecture of division over the open sky of the divine. Centuries have passed, empires have crumbled, and languages have shifted. Yet, Kabir's couplets are still recited in village squares and debated in universities today. He requires no temple because he built one inside language itself. He is the conscience of the Indian soul.
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