Sant Kabir - The Great poet

Sant Kabir - The great poet

Kabir Das, a mystical poet and great Saint of India, was born in the year 1440 and died in the year 1518. According to the Islam the meaning of the Kabir is The Great.

Kabir Panth is the huge religious community which identifies the Kabir as the originator of the Sant Mat sects.

The members of Kabir Panth are known as the Kabir panthis who had extended all over the over north and central India.

Some of the great writings of the Kabir Das are Bijak, Kabir Granthawali, Anurag Sagar, Sakhi Granth etc.

 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 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 named, Ramananda, in his early childhood.

One day, he became a well known disciple of the Guru Ramananda.
The house of the Kabir Das has accommodated students and scholars for living and studying his great works.
There is no clue of the birth parent of the Kabir Das but it is considered that he was cared by a Muslim family.

He was founded in Lehartara, a small town in Varanasi by the Niru and Nima (his care taker parents).
His parents were extremely poor and uneducated but they very heartily adopted the little baby and trained him about their own business.
He lived the balanced life of a simple house holder and a mystic.
Saint Kabir Das, a Bhakti and Sufi movement saint of the medieval India, is extensively for his Bhakti movement in the North India.
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 Julaha.
His immense contribution towards the Bhakti Movement in India is considered as a pioneered one along with the Farid, RavIdAs and Namdev.
 He was a saint of combined mystical nature (Nath tradition, Sufism, bhakti) which made him of a distinctive religion of his own.
 He said that the path of sufferings is the real love and life.