Daas Kabir Jee

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Re: Daas Kabir Jee

@Faris_Udeen

Basically he was a mystic who was bought up by Muslim weavers and learned the spiritual and worldy arts through Muslim Sufis and Hindu Sadhus both being the mystic holy men of thier religions.
His life is said to have spanned the period between 1440 and 1520 AD although some put his date of departure at 1518 and his Birth date around 1417. We know very little about his early life and almost nothing is known of his parents. One assumes then that he was perhaps an orphan originally bought up by Muslim weavers but who later went to stay with the Great Hindu Saint Ramananda who was the founder of the Bhakti Hindu faith. Famous Nepalese Ghurkas of the Bahkti tribe were said to be the most astute followers of this faith but it has spread across India since that period.

He was from the region of Varanasi which is one of the holiest places in Hinduism with its great temples and many buildings along the Ganges river which even today is used for bathing and its supposed cleanliness of the soul.

Saint Kabir was taught by the greatest Hindu Sadhu of the time which caused much consternation among the other Hindu students for Kabir was a Muslim but Kabir seems to have **trancended the boundaries of faith and many atribute to him great healing abilites and he is revered among both Hindu and Muslim communities as a powerful saint blessed by the one true God.
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Kabir is known for his great philosophy in which he combined Hindu Brahmanic beliefs with his own vision of a one true God. This is most profoundly exibited in his poem “Main kya Janoo Ram.” Which forms one of many works in his great Bijak. The Bijak is essentially an Anthology of poems which translate as “the Seed” and it is well known for its direct manner of adressing many of the fundamental questions of man towards God.

Wonderful Wording !

The whole essay is beautifully written.