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Saith Kabir, why perform so many ceremonies?
(Kabir, Ibid, p. 145)
There are many places for ablutions, O foolish man, and many gods to
worship.
Saith Kabir, thou shall not be saved by means of these,
O foolish man; thou shalt be saved by the worship of God.
(Kabir, Ibid, p. 173)
Endure not the torture of absurd religious ceremonies,
(Kabir, Ibid, p. 191)
If salvation is obtained by bathing in water, the frogs which are
continually bathing will obtain it,
But as the frogs so the pilgrims; they shall be born again and again.
(Kabir, Ibid, p. 215)
If God dwells only in the mosque, to whom belongeth the rest of the
country?
They who are called Hindus say that God dwelleth in an idol:
I see not the truth in either sect......
The Brahmans yearly perform twenty-four fastings on the
eleventh day of the dark and light halves of the lunar month; The
Musalmans fast in the month of Ramzan.........
What availeth the Hindus to bathe at Jagannath in Urisa (Orissa),
what the Musalmans to bow their heads in a mosque?
With deception in their hearts they repeat prayers; what availeth
them to go on a pilgrimage to Makka? (Kabir, Ibid, p. 276)
Kabir, I was going on a pilgrimage to the Kaaba, and I met God on the
way;
The Lord fell aquarrelling with me, ‘Who ordered thee to go to that
place?’ (Kabir, Ibid, p. 309)
8. Pollution
There is impurity in water, there is impurity in land, there is impurity
in whatever is born.
There is impurity in birth, and again in death;
God’s subjects are ruined by this impurity.
O Pandit, tell me who is pure; (Kabir, Ibid, p. 161)
.They scrub their vessels, and put them on fires whose wood hath
been washed;
They dig up the earth, make two fire-places, and eat up men whole!