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Kabir Jayanti

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Kabir Jayanti

Why it is celebrated

Kabir Jayanti falls on Jyeshtha Purnima and remembers the birth of Sant Kabir. In simple, everyday words he spoke of true love for God, honesty, and seeing all people as equal. People remember him by singing his dohas and bhajans, especially at the Kabir Chaura Math in Kashi.

The story

About six hundred years ago there was a pond called Lahartara in Kashi. According to the Kabir Panth tradition, on the morning of Jyeshtha Purnima a weaver couple, Neeru and Neema, found a little baby there on a lotus. They took him home and raised him with great love. This child grew up to be Sant Kabir.

Kabir ji wove cloth on a loom and took God's name as he worked. He wished to make Swami Ramanand his guru. It is said that one day, before dawn, he lay down on the steps of a ghat on the Ganga. On his way to bathe, Ramanand ji stepped on him in the dark and cried out, 'Ram, Ram!' Kabir ji took those words as his guru mantra.

Instead of show and discrimination, Kabir ji taught devotion from a true heart. For him, real knowledge was understanding the two and a half letters of 'prem', love.

At the end of his life he went to Maghar. It is said that after he passed away, Hindus and Muslims both claimed him as their own, and both built memorials to him, which still stand in Maghar.

Puja vidhi

  1. Bathe in the morning, remember Sant Kabir and light a lamp before his picture.
  2. Sit with your family, read a few of Kabir ji's dohas and talk about their meaning.
  3. Sing or listen to Kabir's bhajans; many places hold satsang and kirtan today.
  4. If you can, visit Kabir Chaura or Lahartara in Kashi, or a Kabir math near you.
  5. Serve at a bhandara (community meal), or feed someone who is hungry.
  6. Take a sankalp to speak sweetly all day and to treat no one unfairly.

Food

Simple food; Kabir maths and satsangs share prasad from a bhandara (community meal).

Wishes to send

  • Warm wishes on Kabir Jayanti! May Sant Kabir's words keep showing us the path of truth and love.

  • 'Dhai aakhar prem ka', the two and a half letters of love: may this teaching of Kabir ji fill your life with sweetness. Happy Kabir Jayanti!

  • Sant Kabir taught us to look for God not outside, but in our own heart. A hundred pranams to him on his Jayanti.

  • Sweet words, an honest heart and love for all: that is Kabir ji's message. Best wishes on Kabir Jayanti.

  • Pranam to the voice of truth that came from a weaver's loom. Best wishes to you on Kabir Jayanti.

  • This Kabir Jayanti, let us bring one of Kabir ji's dohas into our everyday life.

For your status

  • Two and a half letters of love.

  • An honest heart, sweet words: Kabir Jayanti.

  • A hundred pranams to Sant Kabir.

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