Kabir Indian Poet

[Rene Seiler]

Indianclassical music has long embodied the wide spiritual and philosophical realms by the means of lyrics and performance. It travels across borders and boundaries and enraptures the audience with its soul-stirring quality.

Hence, creating and performing music that has a universal appeal, sharing and spreading words of wisdom articulated by great poets and philosophers as a means of furthering the rich legacy of classical music becomes every artist's prized dream.

He was a fierce social critic and iconoclast who probed and questioned, challenged and exposed and ultimately jolted his audience into facing the many truths of life and death. The characteristic feature of Kabir's poems is to deliver messages of humanity and life through simple, everyday actions and truths. In the most simplistic and accessible language, they drive home the point of inclusion and universality.

Be it dohas like "Chalti chakki dekh kar, diya kabira roye" which speak of the impermanence of life, or "Maati kahe kumhar se", in which Kabir focuses on the need to temper our pride and brings in the circularity of life sans religion, faith or geography.

In an increasingly polarised world, Kabir's teachings remind us of the futility of division, difference, exclusion, and the need for unification. And as practitioners of Indian classical music, it has given us a voice to express this to listeners across the world.

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