Kabir — "Grief is the ink with which joy rewrites the soul's story."
Grief is the ink with which joy rewrites the soul's story.
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"The fool searches for God in temples and mosques, but the wise man finds Him in his own heart."
"The flute of the Infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love."
"The road to God is a narrow one. It is so narrow that two cannot walk abreast."
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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.