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Kabir

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Kabir

Indian religious poet and teacher, a leader of the bhakti movement. He rejected the external practices of Islam and Hinduism to teach a simple, direct faith in the one God, attracting many followers from among both Hindus and Muslims.

Kabire was born a Muslim in Varanasi and lived as an illiterate weaver. The first Sikh guru, Nanak, was influenced by Kabir's message. Kabir's present-day Hindu followers number about 4 million.
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"They pretend," as I hear, "that the verses of Kabir have four different senses; illusion, spirit, intellect, and the exoteric doctrine of the Vedas"; but in this part of the world it is considered a ground for complaint if a man's writings admit of more than one interpretation.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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