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POEMS OF
KABIR
by Rabindranath Tagore,
introduction
by Evelyn Underhill
Indian Paperback
114 pages
ISBN
81-7167-629-4
Rupa & Co.
$6.95
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| POEMS OF KABIR is a selection from
the songs of "one of the most interesting
personalities in the history of Indian mysticism,"
as Evelyn Underhill writes in her Introduction.
The poet was born in Benares into a Muslim family
in the mid-fifteenth century. As a youth, Kabir
became a disciple of Ramananda, a celebrated Hindu
ascetic, who taught him a mystical religion of
love based on the Hindu God, Vishnu, but was also
influenced by the Persian mystics and dreamt of
reconciling various religious streams into a
harmonious whole. It was Kabir's poems that fused
them into one and made an immortal appeal to the
heart with their vision of universal love.
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| RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861-1941) was
praised as an artistic and spiritual genius in
Bengal and throughout India during his incredibly
prolific literary career. He won worldwide acclaim
for his innovative ideas on culture, education,
religion, and aesthetics, and was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1913. Tagore's
translation of the poems of Kabir were published
in London the following years. |
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