throw light on the teachings of kabir and mirabai
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Mirabai and Kabir are not only two of India’s greatest poets, they are among the finest mystic poets in all world literature. The exquisite devotional lyrics of Mirabai, still sung in India today, and the knotty, acerbic sayings of Kabir, which resonate with seekers of all spiritual traditions, are on a par with the work of the other great spiritual artists of the same pre-Renaissance era – the ecstatic poems of St John of the Cross, the visionary art and music of Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, the revolutionary frescos of Giotto, the and the lyricism of the Persian Sufi poets Hafiz and Rumi.
However, a gulf separates contemporary Western culture from that of late Medieval India. The following biographical and philosophical sketches are offered to help conjure in the reader a sense of the world in which the poets lived and wrote. To offer the reader an impression of the poets’ intellectual milieu, a number of Indian words have been left untranslated. The mythological and metaphysical concepts behind these words is clarified in the appendix the follows the poems.
However, a gulf separates contemporary Western culture from that of late Medieval India. The following biographical and philosophical sketches are offered to help conjure in the reader a sense of the world in which the poets lived and wrote. To offer the reader an impression of the poets’ intellectual milieu, a number of Indian words have been left untranslated. The mythological and metaphysical concepts behind these words is clarified in the appendix the follows the poems.
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