Category: Kabir
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Kabir Doha on Guru : Importance of Guru (Master)
यह तन विषय की बेलरी, गुरू अमृत की खान सीस दिये जो गुरू मिलै, तो भी सस्ता जान This body is full of desires and Guru (master) the source of unperishable. It is still cheaper if you meet your Guru (master) at the cost of cutting your head. This doha (couplet) of Kabir raises…
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Kabir Doha #9 (Freedom from Sins)
जब ही नाम हिरदय धरा, भया पाप का नाश I मानो चिंगारी आग कि, पुरी पुरानी घास II [A small spark can completely burn heaps of grass collected over years. In same way, the name of god, when uttered from the heart, can burn the sins accumulated over years] Kabir: Just an enlightened being…
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Kabir on truth – Doha #8 [Truth and Falsity]
सांच बराबर तप नही, झूठ बराबर पाप ।जाके हिरदय म साच है, ताके हिरदय हिर आप [There is no meditation is effective as truth and no sin as grave as falsity. Lord is present in the heart of one, whose heart is filled with truth.]Once again, Kabir left me speechless. I have a collection hundreds…
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Nirguni Bhajan by Sant Kabir- Where meaning is meaningless
Writings and literature of Kabir are written on two levels, one for the common masses and the other for the meditators. Dohe of Sant Kabir are written for the laymen- those who need simple principles to guide their lives. As one can easily see, these dohe are very practical and easy to follow. They are…
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Dohe of Kabir-7(Rare is the birth as a human being)
दुर्लभ मनुस्या जीवन है,देह न बरम्बार । तरुवर ज्यों पत्ती झड़े,बहुरि न लागे डार ॥ Meaning – Rare is the birth as a human being and one does not again again gets this human body. Once a leaf is detached from the trunk, cannot be joint back again. In these two lines, Saint Kabir points…
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Kamal : Incredible son of saint Kabir
All of us are aware of saint Kabir and his immortal dohas. It is said that Kabir is one of the most quoted poets of the world. Almost all the intellectuals, lecturers, saints refer to Kabir when they have to explain some difficult spiritual phenomenon in simple words. All of us remember and worship Kabir…
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Dohe of Kabir # 6
Saint Kabir makes us stop still with the helps of his two liners, called Doha. This beautiful Doha of Kabir is worth a thousand lines- माँगन मरण समान है, मत माँगो कोई भीख । माँगन से तो मरना भला, यह सतगुरु की सीख English Translation- (Do not ask for anything. To ask for anything is…
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Dohe of Kabir #5
जाती नं पुछो साधू की पुछ लिजिये ग्यान मोल करो तलवार का पडा राहन दो म्यान…. (Do not ask a holy man his cast, look at his knowledge. One should always inquire about the sword and not its cover.) One of the basic problem of human beings is, that they need respect. Any person on this earth…
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Dohe of Kabir 1
Every man is special. every man has a different built of his body and his psyche. The more firmly the psyche is built, more difficult it becomes to change it. The truth is one and almost all the saints are pointing to it. The truth is eternal and almost all the mystics show it. But,…
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The Kabir way of Love…..
We usually say that education solves the problem. Down the ages, we can see how futile this sentence is. Education was thought to be the answer of all the problems. But, it can be seen that education is simply taking away us from the reality, authenticity, simplicity and beauty of the natural things. The biggest…