Kabir also wrote in pure Bhojpuri, for instance his poems like mor hīrā herāïl bā kichaṛe me is written in pure Bhojpuri. Kabir's poems were in Sadhukkadi, borrowing from various dialects including Khadi boli, Braj, Bhojpuri, and Awadhi. Accompanying the property is a house named Nīrūṭīlā ( नीरू टीला) which houses Niru and Nima graves. Kabīr maṭha ( कबीरमठ), a maṭha located in the back alleys of Kabir Chaura, celebrates his life and times. Kabir's family is believed to have lived in the locality of Kabir Chaura in Varanasi (Banaras). The Dabestan-e-Mazaheb states Kabir is a "Bairagi" (Vaishnava yogi) and states he is a disciple of Ramanand (the text refers to him repeatedly as "Gang"). According to Irfan Habib, the two manuscript versions of the Persian text Dabestan-e Mazaheb are the earliest known texts with biographical information about Kabir. Early texts about his life place him with Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism as well as the Sufi tradition of Islam. Kabir is widely believed to have become one of the many disciples of the Bhakti poet-saint Swami Ramananda in Varanasi, known for devotional Vaishnavism with a strong bent to monist Advaita philosophy teaching that God was inside every person and everything. Many followers of Kabir believe that he came from Satloka by assuming the body of light, and incarnated on a lotus flower and claim that the rishi Ashtanand was the direct witness of this incident, who himself appeared on a lotus flower in the Lahartara Pond.Ī few accounts mention that Kabir in the form of a child was found at Lahartara Lake by a Muslim weaver called Niru and his wife Nima who raised him as his parents. There is a considerable scholarly debate on the circumstances surrounding Kabir's birth. Generally, Kabir is believed to have been born in 1398 (Samvat 1455), : 14–15 on the full moon day of Jyeshtha month (according to the historical Hindu calendar Vikram Samvat) at the time of Brahmamuharta. Some historians favor 1398–1448 as the period Kabir lived, while others favor 1440–1518. The years of Kabir's birth and death are uncertain. Kabir's legacy survives and continues through the Kabir panth ("Path of Kabir"), a religious community that recognizes him as its founder and is one of the Sant Mat sects. To know the truth, suggested Kabir, drop the "I", or the ego. Kabir suggested that "truth" is with the person who is on the path of righteousness, considered everything, living and non living, as divine, and who is passively detached from the affairs of the world. When he died, several Hindus and the Muslims he had inspired claimed him as theirs. During his lifetime, he was threatened by both Hindus and Muslims for his views. He questioned what he regarded to be the meaningless and unethical practices of all religions, primarily what he considered to be the wrong practices in the Hindu and Muslim religions. īorn in the city of Varanasi in what is now Uttar Pradesh, he is known for being critical of both organized religion and religions. His writings influenced Hinduism's Bhakti movement, and his verses are found in Sikhism's scripture Guru Granth Sahib, the Satguru Granth Sahib of Saint Garib Das, and Kabir Sagar of Dharamdas. Kabir (1398–1518) : 14–15 was a well-known Indian mystic poet and saint.
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