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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 exhorted his audience to shed their delusions, pretensions, and empty orthodoxies in favour of an intense, direct, and personal confrontation with truth. Thousands of poems are popularly attributed to Kabir, but only a few written collections have survived over the centuries. The Bijak, translated here, is one of the most ...
Kabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millennium. He preached an abrasive, some-times shocking, always-uncompromising message exhorting his audience to shed their delusions, pretensions, and empty orthodoxies in favour of an intense, direct, personal confrontation with truth. Linda Hess points out in her introduction that Kabir a pound away with questions, prods with riddles, ...