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Source-checked Hindi dohas attributed to Kabir in the first volume of Kavita Kaumudi, with page-level links and clearly labelled editorial English meanings.
By Kabir · Read the edition used for verification
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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.
कविता-कौमुदी १ — कबीर साहब, दोहा १४६ · View source
“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.
कविता-कौमुदी १ — कबीर साहब, दोहा १४५ · View source
“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.
कविता-कौमुदी १ — कबीर साहब, दोहा १९ · View source
“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.
कविता-कौमुदी १ — कबीर साहब, दोहा २३ · View source