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What simple things or acts make you happy?
Do you ever examine your thoughts and feelings?
Sometimes I like my moments of quietude. I tried to meditate, not that I tried hard but went for a single class and gave up. I find good music meditative. While searching for good music I come across so many hidden gems. I listen to various genres of music depending on my mood. While listening to Abida Parveen’s rendition of KABIR DAS poems, I was mesmerised not only by her soul-stirring voice but also by the poems. Though I have studied Kabir’s Dohe at school, I wanted to know more about his life and the in-depth meanings of the Dohe. I went book hunting and I came across this book by Robert Bly, when I went looking for Kabir by Rabindranath Tagore.
When we were children, we would have so many golden thoughts and insights bestowed upon us by our elders but we would take them for granted. As an adult now, I try to recollect so many things my father used to say.
बुरा जो देखन मैं चला, बुरा न मिलिया कोय ।
जो दिल खोजा आपना, मुझसे बुरा न कोय ।।
This couplet was my dad’s favourite. The gist of these lines is that when I went looking for evil in the world, I couldn't find any. When I searched within, I found that there wasn't anything/anybody worse than me.
पोथी पढ़ि पढ़ि जग मुआ, पंडित भया न कोय ।
ढाई आखर प्रेम का, पढ़े सो पंडित होय ।।
I love these couplets. It means that humans do not become scholars by reading many books, on the other hand they become learned by spreading and showering love.
The best part about the poems of Kabir is that he wrote in the local dialects, which could be easily understood, unlike hymns, and poems, in Sanskrit.
The poems of Kabir depicted his unorthodox views, and he had a very secular outlook. The book has beautiful poems, all in English. My only contention was that I wanted to read the original verses of Kabir, side-by-side so that I could relate to them, but the book only has the translations.There are some stories of Kabir that are very interesting, some that I have heard and some that I havent.
If you like to read motivational and meaningful poems then I definitely would recommend this book to you.
Do you ever examine your thoughts and feelings?
Sometimes I like my moments of quietude. I tried to meditate, not that I tried hard but went for a single class and gave up. I find good music meditative. While searching for good music I come across so many hidden gems. I listen to various genres of music depending on my mood. While listening to Abida Parveen’s rendition of KABIR DAS poems, I was mesmerised not only by her soul-stirring voice but also by the poems. Though I have studied Kabir’s Dohe at school, I wanted to know more about his life and the in-depth meanings of the Dohe. I went book hunting and I came across this book by Robert Bly, when I went looking for Kabir by Rabindranath Tagore.
When we were children, we would have so many golden thoughts and insights bestowed upon us by our elders but we would take them for granted. As an adult now, I try to recollect so many things my father used to say.
बुरा जो देखन मैं चला, बुरा न मिलिया कोय ।
जो दिल खोजा आपना, मुझसे बुरा न कोय ।।
This couplet was my dad’s favourite. The gist of these lines is that when I went looking for evil in the world, I couldn't find any. When I searched within, I found that there wasn't anything/anybody worse than me.
पोथी पढ़ि पढ़ि जग मुआ, पंडित भया न कोय ।
ढाई आखर प्रेम का, पढ़े सो पंडित होय ।।
I love these couplets. It means that humans do not become scholars by reading many books, on the other hand they become learned by spreading and showering love.
The best part about the poems of Kabir is that he wrote in the local dialects, which could be easily understood, unlike hymns, and poems, in Sanskrit.
The poems of Kabir depicted his unorthodox views, and he had a very secular outlook. The book has beautiful poems, all in English. My only contention was that I wanted to read the original verses of Kabir, side-by-side so that I could relate to them, but the book only has the translations.There are some stories of Kabir that are very interesting, some that I have heard and some that I havent.
If you like to read motivational and meaningful poems then I definitely would recommend this book to you.