To know the truth, suggested Kabir, drop the 'I', or the ego. Kabir suggested that 'truth' is with the person who is on the path of righteousness, considered everything, living and non living, as divine, and who is passively detached from the affairs of the world. When he died, several Hindus and the Muslims he had inspired claimed him as theirs. During his lifetime, he was threatened by both Hindus and Muslims for his views.
He questioned what he regarded to be the meaningless and unethical practices of all religions, primarily what he considered to be the wrong practices in the Hindu and Muslim religions. īorn in the city of Varanasi in what is now Uttar Pradesh, he is known for being critical of both organized religion and religions. Today, his poems are not only sung by Hindus and Sikhs, but also by Muslims-especially Sufis. His writings influenced Hinduism's Bhakti movement, and his verses are found in Sikhism's scripture Guru Granth Sahib, the Satguru Granth Sahib of Saint Garib Das, and Kabir Sagar of Dharamdas. Kabir (1398–1518 CE) : 14–15 was a well-known Indian mystic poet and sant.
