Kabir — "The lamp is in the house, but the blind man cannot see it."
The lamp is in the house, but the blind man cannot see it.
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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
"The water is clear, but the fish are muddy. The sky is clear, but the clouds are muddy."
"Truth is not shouted, but found in the hush between breaths."
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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.