Kabir — "Seek roots, not shadows, if you wish to blossom fully."
Seek roots, not shadows, if you wish to blossom fully.
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"Don't go to the garden of flowers! O friend! Go not there! In your body is the garden of flowers."
"The path is not in the sky; the path is in the heart."
"In the garden of truth, even the weeds have stories to tell."
"The sacred texts are like a map, but the true path is within your own heart."
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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.