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    Songs of Kabir
    Songs of Kabir
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    Songs of Kabir

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    Kabir's poems give off a marvelous radiant intensity." — The New York Times Book Review. A weaver by trade and a mystic by nature, the 15-century poet Kabir created timeless works of enlightenment that combine the philosophies of Sufism, Hinduism, and the Kabbala. Expressed in imagery drawn from common life and the universal experience, Kabir's poems possess an appealing simplicity. This collection of 100 songs reflects nearly every aspect of the mystic's thought and emotions: ecstasy and despair, tranquil beatitude and fervid illumination, and moments of intimate love. The acclaimed translation is by Rabindranath Tagore, a popular Indian poet and Nobel laureate.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJan 18, 2013
    ISBN9780486148618

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      Songs of Kabir - Kabir

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2004, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by The India Society, London, in 1914 under the title One Hundred Poems of Kabir.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Kabir, 15th cent.

      [Songs. English. Selections]

      Songs of Kabir / Kabir ; translated by Rabindranath Tagore ; assisted by Evelyn Underbill.—Dover ed.

      p. cm.

      Based upon the printed Hindi text with Bengali translation of Mr. Kshiti Mohan Sen.—Introd., 1914 ed.

      Originally published: One hundred poems of Kabir. London: The India Society, 1914.

      9780486148618

      I. Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941. II. Underhill, Evelyn, 1875-1941. III. Title.

      PK2095.K3A25 2004

      891.4’312—dc22

      2003063501

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y 11501

      Table of Contents

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      nuja’s preaching the form of an ardent personal devotion to the God Vishnu, as representing the personal aspect of the Divine Nature: that mystical religion of love which everywhere makes its appearance at a certain level of spiritual culture, and which creeds and philosophies are powerless to kill.

      hmanism. Some have regarded both these great religious leaders as influenced also by Christian thought and life : but as this is a point upon which competent authorities hold widely divergent views, its discussion is not attempted here. We may safely assert, however, that in their teachings, two—perhaps three—apparently antagonistic streams of intense spiritual culture met, as Jewish and Hellenistic thought met in the early Christian Church: and it is one of the outstanding characteristics of Kabir’s genius that he was able in his poems to fuse them into one.

      , Vedantist or Vaishnavite. He is, as he says himself, at once the child of Allah and of Ram. That Supreme Spirit Whom he knew and adored, and to Whose joyous friendship he sought to induct

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