Sant Kabir A Prophet of Spiritual Life- Sadhu Vaswani

Kabir I regard as one of the world’s great prophets of pure spiritual life. And spiritual life asks for purification from extraneous elements, from all forms of compromise with the mass-man, from creeds and conventions. Pure spirituality is liberated spirituality. So we may understand why Kabir taught "Rama-Nama" and bhakti or love in the heart. Kabir attached little value to asceticism of the body, to pilgrimages and other practices of "popular" religion.

Kabir blended mystical vision with industry. He believed in the harmony of hands and heart. And the more I think of him, the more I feel that Kabir has a natural dislike for institutional religion, for all externalism. In this regard, he reminds me of the Quakers of England, who believe in the "Inner Light". Kabir spoke, again and again, of "simple union with God". He sang of sahaj samadh". "Simple union", the "samadh" of the simple heart. Kabir did not attach value to pilgrimages. One of his songs has the significant words:

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