Kabir: When I found the boundless knowledge

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When I found the boundless knowledge

Kabir, Kabir poetry, Muslim / Sufi, Muslim / Sufi poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Yoga / Hindu poetry

by Kabir
(15th Century) Timeline

English version by
John Stratton Hawley and Mark Juergensmeyer

Original Language
Hindi

Muslim / Sufi

Yoga / Hindu

15th Century

Kabir:
My mind was soothed
When I found the boundless knowledge,
And the fires
that scorch the world
To me are water cool.

-- from Songs of the Saints of India, Translated by John Stratton Hawley / Translated by Mark Juergensmeyer

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Themes

Water

Recommended Books

	The Bijak of Kabir, Translated by Linda Hess / Translated by Shukdeo Singh
	The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
	Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi, Translated by Mahmood Jamal
	The Kabir Book: Forty-Four fo the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir, Translated by Robert Bly
	Kabir: The Weaver's Songs, by Kabir / Translated by Vinay Dharwadker

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