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1) Sant Kabir became a renowned Sant
in the Bhakti movement.
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Answer:Kabir Das, a mystical poet and great Saint of India, was born in the year 1440 and passed away in the year 1518. It is clearly not known about his birth parents but it is noted that he has been grew up by the very poor family of Muslim weavers. He was a very spiritual person and became a great Sadhu. He got fame all over the world because of his influential traditions and culture.
It is considered that he got all his spiritual training from his Guru, Ramananda, in his early childhood. He became a well known disciple of Ramananda.
Sant Kabir was prejudiced by the existing religious mood of that time like Hinduism, Tantrism as well as the personal devotionalism mixed with the imageless God of Islam. Kabir Das is the first Indian saint who has coordinated the Hinduism and Islam by giving a universal path which could be followed by both Hindus and Muslims. According to him every life has relationship with two spiritual principles (Jivatma and Paramatma). His view about the moksha that, it is the process of uniting these two divine principles.
His great writing, Bijak, has a huge a collection of poems which makes clear Kabir’s general view of spirituality. He simply followed the oneness in the God. He always rejected murti pujan of Hinduism and shown the clear confidence in bhakti and Sufi ideas.
He composed poems in a concise and simple style resonating the admire for factual guru. After being an illiterate he had written his poems in Hindi mixing with Avadhi, Braj, and Bhojpuri. He was insulted by some people. The poems are called variously as dohe, saloka and sakhi. Sakhi means to be memorizes and to remind the highest Truth. The memorizing, performing, and pondering over these utterances comprises for the Kabir and all his followers a way to the spiritual awakening.
His life cycle is centered in the region of Kashi (also known as the Banaras or Varanasi). He was heriditarically related to the weaving occupation and cast of Julahas. His immense contribution towards the Bhakti Movement in India is considered as a pioneered one along with Farid, Ravidas and Namdev.
In the fifteenth century, all the areas of life of people in the Varanasi were strongly held by the Brahmin orthodoxy as well as learning centers. To make free the people from, Kabir Das had to work hard to preach his idealogy as he belonged to the low caste, Julaha. He never felt any differences among the people as to whether they are prostitutes, low caste or high caste. He preached to all by gathering self and his followers. He was ridiculed by the Brahmins for his preaching activities but he never criticized them back and that was why he was much liked by the common people. He started reforming the mind of common people towards the real truth through his couplets.
Kabir has given the people an authentic fact about what is the religion of human beings that one should have. This has helped the common people to understand his message very easily.
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Kabir, the renowned saint of northern India, falls squarely in this tradition of singer-songwriter-critic. Living in the 13th and 14th centuries (the exact dates are disputed, but fall between 1398 and 1518), Kabir upturned the religious notions and social conventions of his time.
Originaly it is trusted that bhakti development began in seventh century Tamil Nadu and later spread to northern India by means of Maharashtra.
It spread crosswise over northern India in fifteenth century and achieved its peak in seventeenth century.
Kabir was a fifteenth century Indian spiritualist writer and holy person, whose compositions affected Hinduism's Bhakti development and his verses are found in Sikhism's sacred text Guru Granth Sahib.
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