EBOOK, SONGS OF KABIR ***
This eBook was prepared by Chetan K. Jain.
Originally scanned at sacred-texts.com by John B. Hare.
SONGS OF KAB?R
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore
Introduction by Evelyn Underhill
New York, The Macmillan Company
1915
INTRODUCTION
The poet Kab?r, a selection from whose songs is here for the
first time offered to English readers, is one of the most
interesting personalities in the history of Indian mysticism.
Born in or near Benares, of Mohammedan parents, and probably
about the year 1440, be became in early life a disciple of the
celebrated Hindu ascetic R?m?nanda. R?m?nanda had brought to
Northern India the religious revival which R?m?nuja, the great
twelfth-century reformer of Br?hmanism, had initiated in the
South. This revival was in part a reaction against the
increasing formalism of the orthodox cult, in part an assertion
of the demands of the heart as against the intense
intellectualism of the Ved?nta philosophy, the exaggerated monism
which that philosophy proclaimed.
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