Kabir

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

Book Description
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.

The Kabir Book

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

Book Description
"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.

The Bijak of Kabir

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

Book Description
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.

Kabir Legends and Ananta-Das's Kabir Parachai

Author: Professor Centre of Asian and African Studies David N Lorenzen
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791404614
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
This book represents the first systematic collection and analysis of the principal legends about Kabir Das, a fifteenth-century poet-saint. It focuses on the ways in which the legends embody and reflect the often changing social and religious needs of those who created and listened to them. Particular attention is paid to the earliest known collection of legends, Ananta-das's Kabir Parachai. This book makes available for the first time an English translation of this text, with detailed notes on its variant readings, as well as a corrected Hindi edition based on a comparison of over a dozen manuscripts. The various historical synchronisms between Kabir and his leading contemporaries, including Ramananda and King Virasimhadev Baghel, are reevaluated, and a solution is proposed to the longstanding debate about Kabir's dates.

Kabir and the Kabir Panth

Author: G. H. Westcott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description

Kabir The Weaver-Poet

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

Book Description

The Weaver's Songs

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

Book Description
Life and works of a Hindu saint poet.

Kabir, the Weaver of God's Name

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

Book Description

Kabir

Author: Kabir
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120817999
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
The book opens a new vista in the sphere of verse translation in India. In the introductory part there is a departure from a mass of Hindi criticism. The bases of selection of dohas from the Sakhi are: (1) Kabir`s proverbial and worldy wisdom, (2) analogy-finding gift, (3) richness and variety of imagery, (4) recurrent theme of death, (5) gift for satire, and (6) rhetorical powers. this introductory part primarily focusses on Kabir as poet, which is his `real estimate`. Thus, the introductory part is a piece of scholarly criticism judging and appreciating Kabir`s Sakhi on the canons of English literary criticism. The versification (four-line stanzaform in loose lambic tetrameter lines) has an easy flow and almost parallels the flow of Kabir`s dohas. With the Hindi version and notes, the book will be a valuable reading especially for the English-speaking readers.

THE BRAHM NIRUPAN OF KABIR

Author: J. Das
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493112562
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
The word Brahm means the Absolute or Ultimate Reality that is the primal cause of the existence of the universe and all beings. Nirupan means the form or nature of that Reality. For simplicity, we can say God. Yet we know that God is beyond forms and attributes that we can ascribe to Him. But we need to use words to communicate, so Kabir explains to his disciple that the Ultimate cannot be described in words, but must be experienced inwardly. He then describes various methods of approaching God, the negative actions to avoid, and the virtuous ones to be cultivated, as one progresses on the spiritual path to enlightenment. Kabir uses several Indian analogies and metaphors to explain the teachings to his earnest disciple.