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Kabir

c. 15th century · Indian mystic poet whose songs join spiritual insight with ordinary life.

Substantively reviewed July 27, 2026 · Quotes.org.in editorial desk

About Kabir

Kabir was a North Indian mystic poet whose songs challenge empty ritual and find spiritual meaning in love, work, home and shared humanity. His verse survives through an extensive oral and manuscript tradition, so English wording must always be tied to a named translation rather than treated as a universal text.

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Selections are checked against the 1915 public-domain English edition of Songs of Kabir translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Every record identifies both the numbered poem and Tagore as translator, preserving the distinction between Kabir’s attributed song and its English rendering.

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“The river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves?”

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Songs of Kabir, poem XIV (II.56), translated by Rabindranath Tagore · View source

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“So stay where you are, and all things shall come to you in time.”

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Songs of Kabir, poem XL (I.65), translated by Rabindranath Tagore · View source

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“Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities.”

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Songs of Kabir, poem LVI (I.68), translated by Rabindranath Tagore · View source

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“His work and his rest are filled with music: he sheds abroad the radiance of love.”

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Songs of Kabir, poem LXX (III.9), translated by Rabindranath Tagore · View source

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“Go thou to the company of the good, where the Beloved One has His dwelling place.”

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Songs of Kabir, poem LXXI (III.13), translated by Rabindranath Tagore · View source

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“बुरा जो देखन मैं चला बुरा न मिलिया कोय। जो दिल खोजौं आपना मुझसा बुरा न कोय॥”

English meaning: I went looking for faults in others and found none; when I searched my own heart, I found the fault within myself.

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कविता-कौमुदी १ — कबीर साहब, दोहा १४६ · View source

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“जहाँ दया तह धर्म है जहाँ लोभ तह पाप। जहाँ क्रोध तह काल है जहाँ छिमा तहाँ आप॥”

English meaning: Where compassion lives, there is righteousness; where greed lives, there is wrongdoing. Anger brings ruin, while forgiveness reveals the divine.

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कविता-कौमुदी १ — कबीर साहब, दोहा १४५ · View source

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“काल करै सो आज कर आज करैं सो अब्ब। पलमें परलै होयगी बहुरि करैगा कब्ब॥”

English meaning: Do today what you would leave for tomorrow, and do now what you would leave for today; everything may change in a moment.

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कविता-कौमुदी १ — कबीर साहब, दोहा १९ · View source

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“माटी कहै कुम्हार को तू क्या रूँदै मोहिं। इक दिन ऐसा होइगा मैं रूँदूँगी तोहि॥”

English meaning: The clay asks the potter why he tramples it; one day, it says, the earth will cover him.

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कविता-कौमुदी १ — कबीर साहब, दोहा २३ · View source

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