Sant Kabir Das Biography: From Weaver to Spiritual Guru

Sant Kabir Das An Introduction

Sant Kabir Das Biography

Sant Kabir Das does not need any introduction, his name itself is an introduction. The Bhakti period of Hindi literature is considered from 1375 to 1700. It is regarded as the golden era of Hindi literature, in this period one of the great poets of the Gyanashrayi branch of Nirgun Bhakti is Saint
Kabir Das Ji.

Sant Kabir Das ji Birth

It cannot be said for sure about his birth, he was born in a place called Lahartara, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, around Samvat 1456 1398 AD. It is said that Sri Ramanand Swami had mistakenly blessed a widowed Brahmin to have a daughter. who later came to be known as Saint Kabir Das Ji

जाति जुलाहा नाम कबीरा बनि बनि फिरै उदासी

Sant Kabir Das Family

Kabir Ji was married to a woman named Loi. Due to this, they had two children. He named his son Kamal and daughter Kamali.

Sant Kabir Das Guru

Kabir Das wanted to make Vaishnava saint Acharya Ramanand his guru, Ramanand ji used to be a very big guru at that time. Ramanand ji refused to make Kabirdas his disciple. Kabir Das ji did not like this thing. He decided that he would make Ramanandji his guru.

Kabirdas ji learned that Ramanand ji goes to Panchganga Ghat every morning for the bath. That’s why Kabir Das ji lay down on the steps of the ghat. When Ramanand ji came there. So Ramanand ji’s feet fell on the body of Kabir Das.

That’s why the word Ram-Ram came out of Ramanand Ji’s mouth. So Kabirdas ji accepted that as his initiation mantra. Also accepted Ramanand ji as a Guru. Most people consider Ramanand ji as Kabir’s Guru but there are some people who believe that Kabir Das ji had no Guru whatever knowledge he got He has done this due to his own reason Kabir Das ji was not educated. See this couplet of Kabir ji to confirm this.

मसि कागद छूयो नहीं, कलम गह्यो नहीं हाथ।

Sant Kabir Das Education

Saint Kabirdas ji was a devotional poet, it would not be wrong to say that he was a revolutionary, social reformer and Godless devotee, he used his couplets and poems for social reform and to remove the hypocrisy, hypocrisy and misconceptions spread in society. Although Kabir ji did not take education anywhere

It is said that he did not even know the alphabet. Nevertheless, his poetry couplets were so effective that they sit directly in the heart and mind, not only in that period but also have the same effect today.

Sant Kabir Das Literature

Kabirdas ji’s compositions are available in Sakhi, Sabad and Bijak. Kabir ji has used Khadi Boli, Punjabi, Gujarati, Rajasthani Braj and Awadhi words in his compositions. Acharya Ramchandra Shukla ji has called Kabir’s language ‘Panchmel Khichdi’.
Sant Kabir das Ji’s three creations are considered. In which the first composition is ‘Sakhi’. The second creation is ‘Sabad’ and the third creation is ‘Ramani’. The explanation of principles in verse style is called ‘Ramini’. The same text is a lyrical post. that can be sung.

The language of Sabad and Ramani is Braj Bhasha. Thus the compilation of Kabir’s compositions is known as Bijak. There are only 3 parts of Bijak – Sakhi, Shabd and Ramani. Kabir is the representative poet of the Nirguna Kavyadhara i.e. Gyanashrai branch of the Bhakti period.

Books of Sant Kabir Das Ji

Kabir’s verses have been compiled by Babu Shyamsundar Das under the title “Kabir Granthawali”. Kabir was the first mystic poet of Hindi. Therefore, in Kabir’s poetry, there are visions of sentimental, mysticism. In the works of Kabir, the influence of Siddhas, Naths and Sufi saints is found.

Death of Sant Kabir Das

At that time it was believed that death in Kashi led to heaven and death in a place called Magahar gives hell. In order to end this superstition, Kabirdas ji went to Magahar before his death where he died in Vikram Samvat 1575 i.e. 1519. He left his body.