Kabir — "Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made …"
Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing: Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway.
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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.
Details
From 'One Hundred Poems of Kabir', describing the mind's role in creating reality.