briefly explain teachings of kabirdas
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Kabir was one of the chief exponents of the Bhakti movement in the medieval period. His early life is shrouded in mystery.According to a prevailing legend he was the son of a Brahmin widow who had left him by the side of a tank in Benares.A Muslim weaver Niru and his wife Nima picked up the baby and brought him up. Thus Kabir spent his early life in the house of his Muslim parentsabir spent much of his time in the company of Hindu ascetics, saints and Muslim sufis. So he imbibed the tenets of both the religions and realized the best of both. Allah and Ram were but names of the same God. He was to be found neither in temples nor in mosques, neither in Benares nor in Mecca but only in the heart of a true devotee.
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Kabir strove to create a spirit of harmony between the Hindus and Muslims. His early life is shrouded in mystery. He lived either towards the close of the fourteen century A.D. or in the beginning of the 15th. It is said that he was born of a Hindu widow, who left him on the embankment of a tank in Benaras and that he was then found and adopted by a Muslim weaver named Niru. When he grew up he became disciple of Ramananda. He did not leave his home. He was a pious householder and used to earn his livelihood by weaving clothes.
His Teachings :
The central teachings of Kabir are very simple. (1) He laid stress ‘Bhakti’. (2) He said that through Bhakti or devotion one would come nearer to God; one could be released from the cycle of birth and death only by sincere love and devotion to God, which he called Bhakti.
(3) He sincerely tried to emphasise the unity of Islam and Hinduism by preaching those virtues which were common to both religions.
(4) He made no distinction between Hindus and Muslims.
(5) To Kabir Allah and Rama were but different names of the same supreme being. To him Hindus and Muslims were “pots of the same clay”.
(6) According to Kabir salvation could be attained by doing good deeds or by means of Bhakti or sincere devotion to God.