Kabir — "The bird sings because it has a song."
The bird sings because it has a song.
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"When 'I' was, God was not; when God is, 'I' am not. All darkness vanished when the lamp of truth lit within."
"The devotee is a dog, and the master a butcher. The dog follows the butcher, and the butcher kills the dog."
"The world is a dream, and life is a play. The actors are many, but the director is one."
"Kabir, take no pride in high dwellings. Death levels all to earth, grass grows above."
"The wise man is a child, and the child is a wise man. The fool is a king, and the king is a fool."
About Kabir (c. 1440-1518)
Indian mystic poet whose verses (preserved in the Sikh Guru Granth Sahib and the Hindu Bhakti tradition) attacked both Hindu and Islamic orthodoxy. Closely associated with Guru Nanak (founder of Sikhism, who incorporated Kabir's verses). For an intellectual contrast, see Brahmanical priesthood, the ritualistic Hindu establishment of his era — Kabir's poetry is the founding text of bhakti devotional rebellion against ritualistic Hinduism — his verses ridicule caste, ritual purity, and priestly mediation as religious theatre.