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Overview
Kabir, a weaver from Benares, lived and wrote 500 years ago, in a civilization very different from our own. Yet both his life story and the mystical verse in this volume speak to our lives today. Kabir's zeal against religious intolerance is timely. His sublime, inspiring poems invite us all—no matter what our caste or faith or ethnic background—to know the Divine One. As Andrew Harvey writes in his Introduction to this new edition, "The testimony of the greatest mystics to our essential divine identity and to the powers, new life and energy and vision that spring from it will be our oxygen, the force and truth that keeps us hoping and working through everything. With Rumi, Jesus, Ramakrishna and Aurobindo, Kabir is one of a handful of spiritual geniuses whose realization transcends all barriers of dogma, religion, country, and civilzation."Synopsis
The lock of error shuts the gate, open it with the key of love: Thus, by opening the door, thou shalt wake the Beloved. Kabir says: "O brother! Do not pass by such good fortune at this."
The poet Kabir, one of the most intriguing and celebrated personalities in the history of Indian mysticism, lived in the fifteenth century. He was a great religious reformer and left behind an exquisite body of poetry of enlightenment that weaves together the philosophies of Sufism, Hinduism, and the Kabbala. These poems express a wide range of mystical experience, from the loftiest abstractions to the most intimate and personal realization of God, and have become a classic Sufi text.