Shukdeo Singh
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 ...