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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Ātmap and Moksa
the major portion of his life in the 15th century, He was brought up in the atmosphere of Islamic culture and inherited the Islamic idea of One God and was highly influenced by the mystical and loving faith of the Sufis, which was an Islamic cult. He was illiterate but a highly gifted and an original personality. He had sought initiation (dikṣā-2727) from Rāmānanda who had carried the Vaisnava doctrine of bhakti from the south to the north. Rāmānanda happened to be the source of inspiration and enlightenment to Kabir and Kabir received from him the hymn (mantra ) of Ramanāma. Rāmānanda was a highly powerful missionary and a religious reformer who advocated the complete abolition of the caste distinctions, and preached that the low-caste-people too are qualified for liberation ( Moksa) if they are sincerely devoted to God, and he also preached the dissemination of the knowledge of God to all people in the language of the people.
Kabir has left in writing nothing behind him. His disciples carried his verses orally from place to place and from generation to generation. Kabir usually uses his name in the last line of his verse, i.e., "Kahata Kabira suno bhai sadho' and we have to accept it as his creation. His compositions are numerous and they were ascribed to his first disciple. Kabir was opposed to the traditional exclusivistic tendencies of religions. He refused to admit the Hindu and the Mohammedan religions in their prevalent forms, their external observances, rituals and dogmatic ways of religious
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