Tag: dohe of Kabir
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Kabir Doha on Awareness: नींद निशानी मौत की, उठ कबीरा जाग
नींद निशानी मौत की, उठ कबीरा जाग, और रसायन छाँड़िके, नाम रसायन लाग (Unawareness is a sign of death, wake up, Kabira! Leave aside all the drugs and practice the drug of meditation ) It has been quite a few weeks and I have not written anything on Kabir. Today, a friend of mine asked…
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Kabir Ke Dohe: सुखिया सब संसार है Kabir Doha on Finding True Happiness:
Kabir has spoken a lot about man and his sleep and his hunger. In the last Doha of Kabir on time management, he tells us how the hunger and lack of awareness waste our entire lives. Isn’t it quite interesting to know what happens to the one who is awake? The one who has come…
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Doha of Kabir on Love: Dhai Akhar Prem Ka
पोथी पढी पढी जग मुवा पंडित भया न कोय ढाई आखर प्रेम का पढे सो पंडित होय Translation: [Entire world is engrossed in reading scriptures but no one has become ‘learned’. The one who understands two and half alphabets of love, attains the wisdom.] Kabir walked the path of love. This doha of Kabir on…
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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 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…
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Power or No Power?
I stumbled upon a very interesting quote, by Homi J. Bhabha, which he made much ahead of the time. The quote is about power, made by this genius scientist from India around 20 years ago. Bhabha made this comment when someone argued that nuclear power was too costly and hence India should not go for…
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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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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…