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Born in 1440 / Died in 1518 / India / Urdu

Poems by Kabir

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His death in Benares

... to paradise. My home, says Kabir, ...

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Poem 6

... There the woods of spring are a-bloom, and the fragrant scent "He is I" is borne on the wind: ...

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The Time Before Death

... Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity ...

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Tell me Brother

... When the mind is detached and casts Maya away, still it clings to the letter ...

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Poem 13

... O MY heart! the Supreme Spirit, the great Master, is near you: wake, oh wake! ...

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Abode Of The Beloved

... Five Elemental Constituents and the Trinity Are Both Not There ...

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Poem 8

... Because it has been named as wave, shall it no longer be considered as water ...

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Poem 4

... He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed: ...

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Where do you search me

... I am with you Not in prayers, nor in meditation ...

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Poem 15

... say or to hear, there is nothing to do: it is he who is living, yet dead, who shall never die again ...

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Poem 9

... WHERE Spring, the lord of the seasons, reigneth, there the Unstruck Music sounds of itself, ...

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The bhakti path...

... just dive in, and coast around like a fish in the water ...

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Dohas (Couplets) I (with translation)

... The gardiner may water with a hundred buckets, fruit arrives only in its season] ...

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Tentacles of Time

... Even the Caretakers of the Fourteen Worlds Die ...

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Poem 5

... e's longing for your Beloved One, it is vain to adorn your body, vain to put unguent on your eyelids ...