: Meet the mystic poets from subcontinental history: How Kabir blended faiths but accepted none fully #IndiaNEWS Benares, located on the banks of the river Ganges, was a seat of religious and spiritual

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Meet the mystic poets from subcontinental history: How Kabir blended faiths but accepted none fully #IndiaNEWS
Benares, located on the banks of the river Ganges, was a seat of religious and spiritual learning in the fifteenth century. Leaders of various faiths would go there to learn, preach, debate and meditate. Vaishnavas, Saivas, Sufis, Jains and Buddhists, all of them set up monasteries, temples, mosques and hermitages here. One of the ascetics from the Vaishnava tradition, Ramananda, set up a monastery on the banks of the Ganges, where he preached love for the one, sans rituals and caste hierarchies. He is considered the first sant of the Bhakti tradition in North India. It is possible that on their visit to Benares, Sant Jnaneshwar and Sant Namdeo had met Ramananda and influenced one another’s thoughts and teachings. Ramananda was also deeply influenced by a Bhakti poet from Southern India, Ramanujan, who also went to Benares to drink from its fountains.Ignoring religionsAs Islam reached much of North India, many of the weavers who were considered to belong to the so-called lower castes, and who believed and worshipped a formless god, converted to Islam. Kabir (the quranic title of Allah, meaning great) was reared in one such family of weavers in Benares in the early 15th century. It is believed that he was a...Read more

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