The Bijak of KabirKabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millennium. He may have been illiterate and he preached an abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncompromising message that exhorted his audience to shed their delusions, pretentions, and empty orthodoxies in favor of an intense, direct, and personal confrontation with the truth. Thousands of poems are popularly attributed to Kabir, but only a few written collections have survived over the centuries. The Bijak is one of the most important, and is the sacred book of those who follow Kabir. |
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TRANSLATIONS | |
Sākhi | |
A Upsidedown Language | |
B A Note on Meter and Rhyme | |
NOTES | |
GLOSSARY | |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
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Ādi Granth Appendix Bhagatahi bhakti Bijak birth body Brahma Brahmin breath brother Buddhist burn called chakras clay commentaries couplet creature crow death delusion devotion drop Dvivedi elephant Eliade experience false fire fish flower fool Ganga Glossary goes Granth Granthāvalī guru Hari hatha yoga head heart Hindi Hindu holy Ibid Indian interpretations Jaydev jīva Kabīr Kabir Panth Kabir says Kvaerne lion listen live mantra Maya meaning meditation mind mouse mouth Muslim Nath pada pandit paradoxical poem poet poetry question Ram’s Rewa rhyme Śabda sadhu sahaja saints sākhi sākhīs samsāra Sanskrit say Ram says Kabir Shiva Shudra Singh singing snake song swan symbol tantric tantrism teaching tell there's three worlds Tivari tongue touch tradition translated tree truth ulaṭbāmsī understand untouchable Upanishad upside-down language Varanasi Vaudeville Vedas Vishnu what’s who’s word yoga yogi yogic