Three sisters from South India and Hindi poet Kabir

by Guest Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:25 pm

http://bargad.org/2012/03/19/three-sisters-and-kabir/

by Guest Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:36 am

What are their favourite Kabir couplets?
Archana says, a touch philosophically, “My favourite is ‘Maya Maha
Thugni Hum Jaani’ (Maya is the biggest thug, I have come to understand
the power of illusion to be a great thug). It perfectly suits my life.
Everything is bound in ‘maya’, illusion. I totally believe that.” Jaya
finds solace in ‘Dheere dheere re mana/Dheere sab kuch hoi/Mali seenche
sau gade/Ritu aaye phal hoye (Slowly, slowly O mind/Everything happens
at its own pace/The gardener may water with a hundred buckets/fruit
arrives only in its season). “We are leading such fast lives and want
everything to happen immediately, but we don’t realise everything has
its own time,” says Jaya.

Humming the couplet, Bindhumalini
indicates her choice: “Haman hein ishk mastana/Haman ko hoshiyari
kya/Rahe aazad yeh jag se/ Haman duniya se yaari kya” (I am bursting
with love/ Why do I need to be careful?/Being free in the world). Says
she, “This is a beautiful poem in which Kabir talks about the blissful
state of absolute love, supreme and unconditional love towards oneself
and the world. Here, when everything becomes one, there is no waiting.
When the lover is within oneself, why befriend anyone else? And so on.
It talks of a happy state and the happiness in this song makes these
seemingly difficult concepts or experiences really possible. When we are
blissfully happy, don’t we lose ourselves as we merge with the world?”
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the above extract from the link i gave earlier gives the favorite kabir verses of the three sisters. The translation given for Bindhumalini's favorite couplet is incomplete and so i give it below:
“Haman hein ishk mastana/Haman ko hoshiyari
kya/Rahe aazad yeh jag se/ Haman duniya se yaari kya”

(I am bursting
with love/ Why do I need to be careful?/Being free in the world/Why do i need the world's friendship?)

by Guest Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:08 am

I've burned my own house down
by Kabir

I've burned my own house down,
the torch is in my hand.
Now I'll burn down the house of anyone
who wants to follow me.

http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/K/Kabir/Iveburnedmyo/index.html

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in the last two lines of this poem, Kabir is talking of the need for everyone to inculcate an independent mindset. Think for yourself, think independently, instead of blindly following whatever anyone may say without applying your own mind--this seems to be Kabir's message in these lines. Compare what Kabir says to what Gautam Budha is recorded to have said: 'believe nothing no matter who may have said it, no matter if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and experience'.

by chameli Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:14 am

very nice the second one

that of the three sisters maya jaya and bindu malini makes perfect sense

this is a world where no one stops to smell the roses

sab abhi chahiye

if u read carefully all great beings say the same things only in slightly altered language

by MaxEntropy_Man Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:25 am

good to see you are weaning yourself off akbur.

by Guest Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:33 am

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:good to see you are weaning yourself off akbur.

i admire akbar but i also admire various other people including Subramanya Bharati and Vemana.

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