5S RELIGIOUS SECTS 



Importance, and the inward man is the only essential point to be attended 



The doctrines of Kabir are taught in a great variety of works in diiFer- 

 ent dialects of Hindi 5 they are the acknowledged compositions of his disci- 

 ples and successors, but they are mostly in the form of dialogues, and profess 

 to be of his utterance, either in his own words, with the phrase, Kahdhi KaUr, 

 * Kabir verily says,* or to the same substance, which is marked by the qualifica- 

 tion, Kahai Kabir, * Kabir has said,' or they are given in the language of his 

 followers, when the expression Das Kahir^ the slave of Kabir, is made use of. 

 The style of all their works is very peculiar, they are written in the usual forms 

 o? Hindi verse, the Doha, Choupai and Samai ; and are very voluminous as 

 may be inferred from the following collection, preserved as the Khds Grantha, 

 or The Book at the Chaura. 



1. SuFJi Nidhdn. 



2. GorakndfhU Ghshthi. 



3. Kabir Pdiyi, 



4). Balak'hki Ramaini, 



5. Rdmdnandki Goahthi. 



6. Anatid Ram Sagara, 



* To avoid unnecessary contention, and its probable concomitant in other days, persecution, 

 was the object probably of the following prudent maxim, one of the Sdkliis of their founder 



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'^J^ W " Associate and mix with all, and take the names of all ; say to every one, yes Sir, yes Sir. 

 Abide in your own abode."— They do not admit that taking the names of all, implies the invocatiou 

 of the illuscry deities of the Hindu Pantheon, but means that they should reply as they are 

 addressed, whether the phrase be Bandagi, Danddwat, or Earn Earn : the proper salutation of an 

 inferior to a superior amongst them, if any be particularly proper, is Bandagi Sahib, Service Sir ; 

 to tvhich the latter replies, Gum Ki Dayd, the mercy of the Lord be upon you. 



