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Updated: June 5, 2025
Kabir said, "I dare not turn my God away when he comes branded with insult." The shade of KING SOMAKA, faring to Heaven in a chariot, passes other shades by the roadside, among them that of RITVIK, his former high-priest. Where would you go, King? Whose voice is that? This turbid air is like suffocation to the eyes; I cannot see. Come down, King! Come down from that chariot bound for Heaven.
These ideas are not modern nor peculiar to any Indian sect. They are present in the Vedic ceremonial, in the practices of the Yoga and even in the teaching of the quasi-mussulman sect of Kabir, which attaches great importance to the letters of the divine name. They harmonize with the common Indian view that some form of discipline or physical training is essential to the religious life.
How to cross these rocks, of which there were eight million, the Malaki did not know; so he stopped and took off his kabir, cut up his betel-nut, and thought for eight days. Then on the ninth day he began to leap over the rocks, and he kept on leaping for eight days, each day jumping over one million of the cuestas. On the sixteenth day he was off, riding on his shield.
It is said that the two divisions have little in common except veneration of Kabir and do not intermix, but they both observe the practice of partaking of sacred meals, holy water, and consecrated betel nut.
"The perfume of the sandal tree is thy incense; the wind is thy fan; all the forests are thy flowers, O Lord of light." Though Nânak is full of Hindu allusions he is more Mohammedan in tone than Kabir, and the ritual of Sikh temples is modelled on the Mohammedan rather than on the Hindu pattern.
At all times these gates are carefully guarded; in the evening the keys are taken to the Amir, after which no one can leave the city till dawn. Kabir in Arabic means great, and is usually applied to the Almighty; here it is a title given to the principal professors of religious science. This is equivalent to saying that the language of the Basque provinces is French with an affinity to English.
Thus even Plotinus is driven to speak of his Divine Wisdom as the Father and ever-present Companion of the soul, and Kabir, for whom God is the Unconditioned and the Formless, can yet exclaim: "From the beginning until the end of time there is love between me and thee: and how shall such love be extinguished?"
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