Kabir — "The cow eats grass, but gives milk. The human eats food, but gives words."
The cow eats grass, but gives milk. The human eats food, but gives words.
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"The drop is in the ocean and the ocean is in the drop."
"The tree gives fruit, but it does not eat it. The river gives water, but it does not drink it."
"Aisi vani boliye, mann ka aapa khoye. Auron ko sheetal kare, aaphun sheetal hoye. (Speak such words that your ego is lost. They cool others, and you yourself become cool.)"
"The wise wash their pride before filling the cup of knowledge."
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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.