Apr 18, 2024
Apr 18, 2024
The Bijak of Kabir, Linda Hess & Sukhdev Singh,
Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi, 2nd Reprint, Delhi, 2015
Kabir is held in high respect and with devotional reverence all over India and the world by Hindi knowing people. His work is matter of fact making readers look around widely, think deep and get transformed.
The blurb of the book is best quoted in full: “…he preached an abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncompromising message exhorting his audience to shed their delusions, pretensions, and empty orthodoxies in favour of an intense, direct, personal confrontation of truth.”
The Introduction stirs our thinking and makes us prepare ourselves to be made sadder and wiser, taught, cajoled, ridiculed and stupefied. The writers Linda Hess and Sukhdev Singh spur us into straight, thoughtful, cleansing action, if we really can learn.
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