Saint - Poetry Stream and Kabir's Poetry

Abstract

Under the Bhakti period of Hindi literature, there was a special 'poetry stream' which Acharya Ramchandra Shulk called Nirgun 'Gyanashrayi branch' Dr. Hazari Prasad Dwivedi wrote ‘Nirgun-Bhakti-Sahitya’ and Dr. Ramkumar Verma has given the name ‘Saint-poetry tradition’. The word ‘Saint’ has also been interpreted in different ways by different scholars. Shri Parshuram Chaturvedi has written - "The word 'Saint' indicates a person who has experienced the Supreme Being in the form of 'Sat' and who has thus risen above his personality and has become identical with it and who is the embodiment of Truth. One who has experienced the ever-realized thing or has become established in the unbroken truth as a result of the attainment of the invisible, he is a saint. Therefore, in the broad sense, any God-oriented gentleman can be called a saint. .....And in the narrow sense only the devotees of Nigurno are given this adjective.''2 Kabirdas himself has said this while clarifying the nature of a saint.