THE BRAHM NIRUPAN OF KABIR
THE BRAHM NIRUPAN OF KABIR

Author: J. Das

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1493112562

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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.

The Bijak of Kabir
The Bijak of Kabir

Author:

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002-04-18

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0199882029

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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.

Kabir Legends and Ananta-Das's Kabir Parachai
Kabir Legends and Ananta-Das's Kabir Parachai

Author: Professor Centre of Asian and African Studies David N Lorenzen

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780791404614

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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.

The Kabir Book
The Kabir Book

Author: Kabir

Publisher:

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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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.

Praises to a Formless God
Praises to a Formless God

Author: David N. Lorenzen

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1996-02-15

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780791428061

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Discusses and translates important compositions by famous Nirguni poets--poets dedicated to the worship of a formless God.

The Sants
The Sants

Author: Karine Schomer

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9788120802773

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