Kabir — "The Pandits and the Mullahs read their books endlessly, but they never dive into…"
The Pandits and the Mullahs read their books endlessly, but they never dive into the sea.
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"The world is a market, and we are its buyers and sellers; let us buy and sell with honesty, for we shall be held accountable."
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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.