Saint Kabir has always shown the world a path of peace and love. He spearheaded the campaign to spread the essence of love and brotherhood. His teachings still continue to act as words of utter morality and acumen and his unparalleled sagacity still dominated the world through his two-liner couplets.
Saint Kabir is remembered as a great saint, point and above all an enlightened human being. At a time when the whole nation stood divided in the context of religion, Kabir preached humanity and never advocated any particular religion; his words guided all regardless of gender, caste and creed and no doubt his couplets are still showing humanity the path to the people around the world. His respect for teachers and elders define a student and children's ideal life while his other couplets mark the guidelines of a well-lived life. His teachings on curbing anger, pride etc. still continue to portray us all how such things can deracinate us and his wisdom is truly par excellence.
Kabir was a 15th-century Indian poet and saint, whose writings influenced Hinduism's Bhakti movement and his verses are found in Sikhism's scripture Adi Granth. His early life was in a Muslim family, but he was strongly influenced by his teacher, the Hindu bhakti leader Ramananda.
He profoundly believed in just one religions i.e. the religion of humanity and always considered that both the Muslims and Hindus who were continuously at loggerheads at that time, were completely misguided and never understood the real teachings of God. Kabir continued to give the same message even after his demise. When Kabir's dead body was lying on the ground waiting for funeral ,both Hindus and Muslims claimed that Kabir was theirs and soon the arguments started taking the form of a significant scuffle. Amidst the argument, Kabir's body vanished away and there lied only the pall. People from both the religions were astounded to see the miracle. When the pall was moved away it was observed that beneath the cloth, lied two symmetrical roses, out of which one was given to Hindus and the other to Muslims and a message of equality and brotherhood was passed on to the people. In one of his couplets, question the divisive teaching of misinterpreted religious books Kabir said,
Kabir suggested that True God is with the person who is on the path of righteousness, considered all creatures on earth as his own self, and who is passively detached from the affairs of the world. Kabir always believed that each one of us has a god inside our heart, our inner consciousness that helps us distinguish between the right and the wrong, and truly we needn't go anywhere else to worship because the God lies in nowhere but our heart.
Kabir is widely believed to have become one of the many disciples of the Bhakti poet-sant Swami Ramananda in Varanasi, known for devotional Vaishnavismwith a strong bent to monist Advaita philosophy teaching that God was inside every person, everything.
Kabir has been showing the path of humanity to us all. Since time immemoral his aphorism have been storing so much of world's treasure that none can ever assume, today to effect a change into the world we need to harness their energy. Kabir's wisdom was truly the blessing of almighty God. His teachings on teachers, respecting cows, loving the siblings, working towards helping others still continue to be the best path of life. During his life he suffered so much resistance and persecution because of his candid beliefs, just because he wanted to show us the path to God and godliness, he was disparaged and maligned by those who didn't want people to get enlightened. Just for our sake, Kabir bore so much pain that once he said that, when tried to show the world, the truth, the world the world abjures him and when he tries to walk on the false path, the world extols him.
Today, its a matter of shame for us all that we have forgotten that such a great soul walked on our land. Despite of following such a great disciple of God ,we have commence taking his aphorisms for granted and antiquated. Today, we need to take up his quotes and put life in them again, because his quotes defies time and applies to all. Today we need to learn to live the right way. Crimes, felonies and hatred are burgeoning in the world because we have forgotten the joy of contentment. All of us are dissatisfied to ourselves and indifferent to others. All our us are just flowing with the trend, trying to inure ourselves to the world, not even knowing whether its justified or not. We have stopped living because we have forgotten Kabir, we have stopped being happy because most of us don't even know about Kabir, almost each one of us is lost in the world and all of us need a teacher and above all an enlightened person like Kabir who can lift us up.
JAI HIND , JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI
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