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Kabir, who probably lived in the fifteenth-sixteenth

centuries, was one of the most influential saints. He

was brought up in a family of Muslim julahas or

weavers settled in or near the city of Benares (Varanasi).

We have little reliable information about his life. We

get to know of his ideas from a vast collection of verses

called sakhis and pads said to have been composed

by him and sung by wandering bhajan singers. Some

of these were later collected and preserved in the Guru

Granth Sahib, Panch Vani and Bijak.

Kabir’s teachings were based on a complete, indeed

vehement, rejection of the major religious traditions.

His teachings openly ridiculed all forms of external

worship of both Brahmanical Hinduism and Islam,

the pre-eminence of the priestly classes and the caste

system. The language of his poetry was a form of

spoken Hindi widely understood by ordinary people.

He also sometimes used cryptic language, which is

difficult to follow.

Kabir believed in a formless Supreme God and

preached that the only path to salvation was through

bhakti or devotion. Kabir drew his followers from

among both Hindus and Muslims.