Kabir — "The river is in the ocean, and the ocean is in the river. The world is in God, a…"
The river is in the ocean, and the ocean is in the river. The world is in God, and God is in the world.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Kabir
"Pothi padh padh kar jag mua, Pandit bhayo na koye. Dhai aakhar prem ke, jo padhe so Pandit hoye. (Reading books, the world died, but none became learned. He who reads but two and a half letters of lov…"
"The earth is a dish, and the sky is a lid. The sun and moon are lamps, and the stars are jewels."
"The lamp of awareness burns brightest when desire is forgotten."
"Let each moment be a guest, not a prisoner of longing."
"The mirror teaches: what we see is often what we bring."
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.