Tag: kabir

  • The ‘Headless Rower’ of Sant Kabir

    The ‘Headless Rower’ of Sant Kabir

    नैय्या मोरी नीके नीके चालन लागी आँधी मेघा, कछु ना व्यापेचढ़े संत बड़ भागी।नैया मोरी नीके नीके चालन लागी। – संत कबीर Different paths point towards the same truth. The Zen masters talk of ‘no-mind’, Nisargadatta Maharaj talks of ‘death of mind’. Krishnamurti talks about a state where observer is the observed. All these masters…

  • Looking at Maya (माया) from Kabir’s perspective. 

    Maya (माया) is a very common word used in the spiritual world. Often associated with a web, as per the Advaita school of thought, Maya stops us from experiencing the non-duality in the world. That’s why, often the word माया is often used with another word – पाश which literally means a web.  It is…

  • Sant Kabir’s Wisdom and E.F. Schumacher’s Economics : Drawing Some Parallels

    Sant Kabir’s Wisdom and E.F. Schumacher’s Economics : Drawing Some Parallels

    साहेब सो सब होत हैं, बंदे से कछु नाही |राई सो परबत करें, परबत राई माही || Translation : All doing is done by Him (the lord). How can I claim doing something? He can turn a mustard seed into a mountain and fit a mountain in the mustard seed! Nothing comes close to this…

  • The Art of Swimming Through Life Without Getting Entangled : Wisdom of Sant Kabir

    The Art of Swimming Through Life Without Getting Entangled : Wisdom of Sant Kabir

    Kabir. When we hear this name, the picture that our minds create is of a saint, living a minimalistic life while maintaining a distance from the society. Living silently in his Kuti, may be surrounded by a few disciples. Loi, which we all assume to be his wife, would be sitting silently in a corner.…

  • Kabir and Krishnamurti : Drawing Some Parallels

    Kabir and Krishnamurti : Drawing Some Parallels

    Kabir and the simplicity of his words have always stunned me. So has the intensity of the words of Jiddu Krishnamurti. While reading and singing Kabir with one’s totality, one can experience the truth, suddenly flashing like a thunder in the dark sky filled with clouds. On the other hand, when one completely surrenders to…

  • Kabir Doha on Patience: धीरे-धीरे रे मना, धीरे सब कुछ होय

    धीरे-धीरे रे मना, धीरे सब कुछ होय, माली सींचे सौ घड़ा, ॠतु आए फल होय। (Be patient, my mind. Everything takes its own time to take place. Look – even if the gardner pours hundred jugs of water, the trees will bear fruits only when the right season comes.) One of the values and capabilities…

  • How Can Indians Become Tolerant? By Understanding Kabir!

    हिन्दू कहें मोहि राम पियारा, तुर्क कहें रहमाना, आपस में दोउ लड़ी-लड़ी  मुए, मरम न कोउ जाना। (Hindus say we worship Rama and Muslims say Rahman. They both die, fighting with each other without even getting a glimpse of him.) Look at Facebook walls, flooded with posts about intolerance, religious hatred and you will realize…

  • Kabir and His Thoughts on Death

    After many days, I am here, writing about Kabir and what he has written about death. Death is probably the only certain thing in our lives, which we have not yet managed to escape from. Death is the ultimate fear we have in our minds. I thought, it would be enlightening to compile different things…

  • 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…

  • 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…