But here is the irony Kabir would laugh at:
If you find that PDF—if you scroll through those couplets translated from the Bijak —you will not find pretty spiritual metaphors. You will find a crowbar. You will find a fist. You will find a weaver from Varanasi who refused to be Hindu or Muslim, yelling at you from 600 years ago to wake up. kabir ecstatic poems pdf
Kabir is the patron saint of the U-turn. He says: "Jab main tha, tab Hari nahin / Ab Hari hai, main nahin." (When I was, God was not. Now God is, I am not.) The deep read of this poem is the death of the reader. You cannot understand Kabir by adding knowledge; you understand him by subtracting yourself. As you scroll through the PDF, ask: Who is scrolling? If you feel a "me" enjoying the poetry, you haven't arrived yet. But here is the irony Kabir would laugh
(Or whatever. Kabir doesn't care.)
We call them "ecstatic" because we have no other word for the destruction of the ordinary. Ecstasy ( ek-stasis ) means to stand outside oneself. Kabir doesn't ask you to feel good . He asks you to step outside your own skull . You will find a weaver from Varanasi who
