Dohas

This iconic Kabir doha teaches that the Guru is bowed to first, even before God, since it is the Guru's grace that reveals the Divine.

This is a short devotional couplet (a doha) from the Bhakti tradition that declares the Guru to be greater than even God (Govind), because the Guru is the one who shows the way to the divine.

A popular couplet attributed to Kabir: seeking the bad in others he found none, but searching his own heart he found no one worse than himself.

This is a short devotional couplet from the saint-poet Kabir, teaching that gentle, ego-free speech brings peace to others and to oneself.

This is a short, urgent verse from the poet Kabir, calling on the listener to act without delay because life can end at any moment.

A Kabir doha teaching that spiritual growth unfolds in its own time, like a tree that bears fruit only when its season arrives.

Kabir's well-known doha (Dohavali 210): the world wore itself out reading books, but only one who reads the two and a half letters of love is wise.

Kabir wept at a grain mill turning between two stones: in the world's grinding duality, no one comes through whole. A Dohavali couplet on impermanence.

A couplet popularly attributed to Kabir: standing in the marketplace, he asks for the welfare of all, with no friendship and no enmity toward anyone.

Kabir's couplet: the body dies again and again, yet desire and craving never die. A Dohavali verse on maya, the restless mind, and the work of letting go.