Kabir — "Pothi padh padh kar jag mua, Pandit bhayo na koye. Dhai aakhar prem ke, jo padhe…"
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 love, he becomes learned.)
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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.