Kab?r then declared that he had
received the mantra of initiation from R?m?nanda's lips, and was
by it admitted to discipleship. In spite of the protests of
orthodox Br?hmans and Mohammedans, both equally annoyed by this
contempt of theological landmarks, he persisted in his claim;
thus exhibiting in action that very principle of religious
synthesis which R?m?nanda had sought to establish in thought.
R?m?nanda appears to have accepted him, and though Mohammedan
legends speak of the famous S?f? P?r, Takk? of Jhans?, as Kab?r's
master in later life, the Hindu saint is the only human teacher
to whom in his songs he acknowledges indebtedness.
The little that we know of Kab?r's life contradicts many current
ideas concerning the Oriental mystic. Of the stages of
discipline through which he passed, the manner in which his
spiritual genius developed, we are completely ignorant. He seems
to have remained for years the disciple of R?m?nanda, joining in
the theological and philosophical arguments which his master held
with all the great Mullahs and Br?hmans of his day; and to this
source we may perhaps trace his acquaintance with the terms of
Hindu and S?f? philosophy.
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