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Title: Songs of Kabir by Rabindranath Tagore, Andrew Harvey ISBN: 1-57863-249-8 Publisher: Weiser Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite book ever
Comment: I first found this book when I was young, 16, and exploring religion in my heart. These poems spoke to me. The relationship with god that is described in the poems is the one I wanted for myself. I have since read other versions of Kabir and many poems by Tagore, but this book remains my one and truest "Bible," which I always have closeby, and read in times of trouble or gladness. Whenever I read these poems I feel at peace and at one with my heart. I can't recommend these beautiful poems highly enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: Kabir's vision was of the unity of the human and divine
Comment: Kabir was born about 1440 (probably), and was a contemporary of the founder of the Sikh religion, Guru Nanak (possibly his mentor). A weaver by trade, and a mystic by nature, his spiritual vision accepted no division between Life and Creator, man and God, as evinced by the following excerpts; "I Laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty: You do not see that the Real is in your home, and you wander...listlessly! Here is the truth! Go where you will...if you do not find your soul, the world is unreal to you." and ..."Kabir says, God is the breath of all breath". Many of these songs contain criticism, not of "worldly" people who lived materialistically, but of renunciates who sought God outside of life and relationships; "The infinite dwelling of the Infinite Being is everywhere: in earth, water, sky, and air...He who is within is without; I see Him and none else". This translation by Tagore also contains allusions to Kabirs' cosmology and essential spiritual practice (absorbtion into the Divine Word or creative power) missing in the naturalistic and minimalistic interpretatations of Robert Bly. The poems, or songs, themselves are remarkably fresh, as if they contained the living inspiration which gave them form, and remain, as it were, untouched by time.
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Title: The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir by Robert Bly ISBN: 0807063797 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Gitanjali: A Collection of Prose Translations Made by the Author from the Original Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore ISBN: 0684839342 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Sadhana The Realization of Life by Rabindranath Tagore ISBN: 0766106594 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Ocean of Love: The Anurag Sagar of Kabir by Kabir ISBN: 0891420398 Publisher: Sant Bani Ashram Inc Pub. Date: 01 May, 1982 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore by Herbert F. Vetter ISBN: 0804831254 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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