Author: Frank Ernest Keay
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Author: Jaya Madhavan
Publisher: Tulika Books
ISBN: 9788181461681
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Kabir
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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"Few major achievements of world literature are as little known to Americans as the great ecstatic poetry of the Hindus and Sufis, as exemplified by the work of the 15th century master, Kabir. Irreverent while being intensely religious, Kabir seems incredibly playful in his taunting of the sacred dogmas of his time--to readers accustomed to the solemnity and ideological fidelity of most Western religious poems. Kabir has been translated into English only once before, by Rabindranath Tagore and Evelyn Underhill. Unfortunately, Tagore's Victorian English was simply not equal to Kabir's directness, spontaneity, and irreverent humor. Working from the Tagore-Underhill translation, Bly has done much more than retranslate into American diction. A noted poet himself, he has breathed new life into the work of a fascinating poet"--From back cover.

Author: Virendra Kumar Sethi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, Hindi
Languages : en
Pages : 796

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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199882029
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Kabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millennium. He may have been illiterate and he preached an abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncompromising message that exhorted his audience to shed their delusions, pretentions, and empty orthodoxies in favor of an intense, direct, and personal confrontation with the truth. Thousands of poems are popularly attributed to Kabir, but only a few written collections have survived over the centuries. The Bijak is one of the most important, and is the sacred book of those who follow Kabir.

Author: Pradeep Thakur
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105374246
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Author: Kabir
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143029687
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Life and works of a Hindu saint poet.

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Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807095370
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir's immense importance to the contemporary reader and praises Bly's intuitive translations. By making every reader consider anew their religious thinking, the poems of Kabir seem as relevant today as when they were first written.

Author: Muhammad Hedayetullah
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120833732
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 363

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Hinduism and Islam are usually considered to be poles apart, especially on religious grounds. But in this work, the author has endeavored to demonstrate that in spite of sharp differences between them, they met on religious, commercial, intellectual and political levels both in and outside of India. Although orthodox Hinduism and orthodox Islam could hardly reconcile, it is shown here that they were bound to accommodate each other. However, the real fusion took place with the coming to India of a host of Sufis; especially the lives and conduct of the left wing mystics of both religions made the two peoples to come closer through Bhakti mysticism. Of the many Bhakta-Mystics who strove in this direction, Dr. Hedayetullah made a special study of kabir (d. 1518) who dedicated his whole life to the achievement of Hindu-Muslim unity on socio-religious levels. So far Kabir has not only been denied his rightful credit as an apostle of Hindu-Muslim unity, but he has also been misunderstood by many. In the present work, he is shown to have gained the place of honor between the two religions as a mediator and a harmonizer. His efforts were crowned with success-the resultant Indo-Islamic culture and civilization is a living proof.

Author: Kabir
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120809352
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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The fifteenth century saint-poet Kabir's extempore outpourings of songs and couplets numbering thousands have been hailed widely for their deep spiritual fervour and poetic quality. They are widely read with rapture and regard by old and young alike in India. Kabir's couplets which are considered as rich gems for their spiritual message and worldly wisdom have not been rendered into English so far. Here are rhymed English verse translation of three hundred of them from a wide cross-section of the multifaced genius' utterances. Under each verse has been given a few lines in prose to help the reader grasp the underlying import of the message of the saint-poet.