From the BENGAL ORIGINAL, translated by DR STANISŁAW SCHAYER with an introduction and explanatory notes, Warsaw MCMXXIII, Hulewicz and Paszkowski, pp. 160, form. 8 x 11, cloth binding with gouges. Binding scuffs, stain on inside cover, pieces clean and well cared for, bookstore stamp on title page.
Kabir, one of the many mystics India has produced, was born in the year 1440 B.C. in Benares, an era when the metaphysics and soteriology of the great philosophical systems: Samkhya, Vedanta and Buddhism had finally given way to a longing for a religion of feeling and trust, a religion whose slogan is not "Liberation through Knowledge" but "Liberation through Love," through faith in the goodness and mercy of a powerful God. Like most Indian poets and minstrels, Kabir never immortalized his works in writing. The earliest collection, the so-called "Kabir-Bijak," is a later compilation by his disciple Dharmadura. Some of the songs were also incorporated into the Adi-Granth, the sacred book of the Sikhs, but the greater part of them to this day live only in the memory of the Hindus and wander among the people from mouth to mouth. Some of them the reader will be able to learn by reading this publication.
