Kabir

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How to find God? Osho explains it with reference to a poem of Kabir Das.A Kabir Dohe states, "As you never may find the forestif you ignore the tree...”Osho clarifies, the fact that when one wants to find a forest, one ...

Continued From Part VIIn many of the teachings of Kabir one cannot miss the lofty message of Sri Ramakrishna expressed in almost the same language more than four centuries later. In fact, the similarities between Kabir and Sri Ramakrishna are astonishing. ...

Continued From Part VFollowing are a few of his selected teachings:On God:'O God, I am your child and you are my Mother. Won't you pardon me my errors? The child may commit numberless blunders; would the Mother ever mind them? If ...

xKabir Death, BiographyContinued From Part IV For some inexplicable reason, Kabir left Kashi in 1518 for a nearby town, Maghar, at the ripe old age of 120. Here came his end. At the time of death he sang in joy ...

Continued From Part III As Kabir intensified his spiritual practices he felt more and more the need to have a formal Guru. He had a great fascination to have Swami Ramananda of Kashi as his Guru. His Muslim background, he ...

Continued From Part II Kabir had, as a legend goes, two wives — Ramjaniya and Loi. After the former died, Kabir married the latter. The story is interesting. Like Kabir, Loi was an orphan child, abandoned on the banks of ...

Continued From Part I Kabir's lifeNot much historical data is available about the time or place of Kabir's birth or about his parents. So we rely on the strong traditions of the Kabirpanthis. According to Ramananda Digvijaya, Kabir was born ...

Kabirdas (A.D. 1398-1518) was perhaps the greatest saint of northern India during the 15th century. A rebel against all that was nonspiritual in religion, Kabir — rightly called the Luther of India — helped to reform both Hinduism and Islam. ...

Kabir, a great devotee of God and Himself a great saint lived a simple life of a weaver though endowed with Siddhis or Psychic powers as a by product of His realised state. ...

Pundaleek, a great devotee of Panduranga was one day massaging the feet of his mother. Then, his Panduranga, the form of God he had installed in his heart and shrine, came in all His splendor and stood before him. ...

The Vedanta Kesari, p. 306-310, August 2005 Is poverty an aid or obstacle to spiritual quest? Conflicting opinions prevail on this issue. The general view is that poverty is to be dreaded as a hideous scourge. It ...