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KABIR READING / 01
Nirgun
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Beyond name. Beyond form.
Kabir strips away every name, image, and doctrine that the mind might mistake for reality itself.
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Ram, the stainless, stands apart;
Anjan is all this vast display.
Kabir
THE CENTRAL QUESTION
Can the mind grasp what is real?
Kabir tests not only worldly attachment, but attachment to scripture, ritual, deity, and spiritual identity. Whatever becomes an object of possession still belongs to anjan.
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01
Anjan / Niranjan
The distinction between everything that colours awareness and reality untouched by colour.
Opening distinction ↗02Speech / Veda
Words may point toward reality; can they ever contain it?
Limits of language ↗03Anjan / The Infinite
Renunciation is the refusal to mistake the finite for the infinite.
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KABIR / CLOSE READING / 01
Ram Niranjan Nyara Re
A radical negation in nine movements: from creation and scripture to worship and merit, everything that turns Niranjan into an object the mind can possess.