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OF THE HINDUS.
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Bhagodás1, one of KABIR's immediate disciples: it is the great authority amongst the Kabir Panthis in general; it is written in very harmonious verse, and with great ingenuity of illustration: its style, however, is more dogmatical than argumentative, and it rather inveighs against other systems than explains its own: in the latter respect it is, indeed, so inexplicit and obscure, that it is perhaps impossible to derive from it any satisfactory conclusion as to the real doctrines of KABÍR. The followers of the Sect admit this obscurity, and much difference of opinion prevails amongst them in the interpretation of many passages: some of the teachers have a short work professedly written as a key to the most difficult parts, but this is in the hands of a chosen few: it is of no great value, however, as it is little less puzzling than the original, of a few passages of which the following translations will best exemplify the description thus given:
RAMAINI THE 1ST.-God, light, sound, and one woman; from these have sprung HARI, BRAHMA, and TRIPURÁRI. Innumerable are the emblems of SIVA and BHAVÁNÍ, which they have established, but they know not their own beginning nor end: a dwelling has been prepared for them: HARI, BRAHMA, and SIVA, are the three headmen, and each has his own village: they have formed the Khandas and the egg of Brahma, and have invented the six Darsanas- and ninety-six Páshandas: no one has ever read the Vedas in the womb, nor has any infant been born a member of Islám. 'The woman', relieved from the burthen of the embryo, adorned her person with every grace. I and you
Of the shorter work: it is undoubtedly the one most generally current.
| SR No. | 007688 |
| Book Title | Essays Lectures on Religion of Hindu Vol 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H H Wilson |
| Publisher | Trubner and Company London |
| Publication Year | 1861 |
| Total Pages | 480 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Interfaith & Hinduism |
| File Size | 28 MB |