as their subjects the commonplaces of Hindu philosophy and religion: the Līlā, or Sport, of God, the Ocean of Bliss, the Bird of the Soul, Māyā, the Hundred-petalled Lotus, and the “Formless Form.” Many, again, are soaked in Sūfī imagery and feeling. Others use as their material the ordinary surroundings and incidents of Indian life: the temple bells, the ceremony of the lamps, marriage, suttee, pilgrimage, the characters of the seasons; all felt by him in their mystical aspect, as sacraments of the soul’s relation with Brahma. In many of these a particularly beautiful and intimate feeling for Nature is shown.[1]
In the collection of songs here translated there will be found examples which illustrate nearly every aspect of Kabir’s thought, and all the
- ↑ Nos. XV, XXIII, LXVII, LXXXVII, XCVIII.
