The Poems of Kabir
Short rhymed couplets and songs by a Benares weaver who mocks the Brahmin's sacred thread and the muezzin's call alike, insisting that the divine is found in the body and the breath rather than in temple, mosque or pilgrimage. The voice is blunt, riddling and often abusive, working in the spoken Hindi of artisans instead of Sanskrit or Persian, and returning again and again to cloth on the loom as an image of a life. Claimed after his death by Hindus and Muslims both, his verses were taken into the Sikh scripture and are still sung across north India.
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- recorded in ↑ The Guru Granth Sahib
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