Love Songs of Kabir

Author: G N DasForeword/Introduction: K S DuggalPublisher: Abhinav PublicationsYear: 2003Language: EnglishPages: 176ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170172888 DescriptionKabir (1398-1518), the illiterate jolaha (weaver) poet who flourished in the 15th century in our ancient land sang hundreds of songs and couplets effortlessly. The first authentic record of some of these songs of great spiritual and poetic excellence is to be found in the holy Guru Granth Saheb of the Sikhs. These and more of them which have been handed down to us through other sources run into thousands.Of them a large number portray the prem-lila (love-game) between the Soul of man (jivathma) and paramathma (Supreme Soul) for their ultimate union signifying the salvation of the soul in man and also of the man concerned. Kabir was firmly of the conviction that God, or in other words salvation, can be attained by the way of love.Some of the love songs of Kabir together with other songs had been translated into English free ve