Upside-down language should make you feel like a fool:
that is part of its function.

- #LindaHess, 'Bijak of #Kabir'

“We lie to each other, to ourselves – because we have to keep up the structure of our whole personality. So #Kabir says, ‘Face it, you’re a liar ... The things that you think are noble, are just forms of self-aggrandizement. Face it!'" – #LindaHess

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPfr...

Yogic practice became popularly known as '𝒖𝙡𝒕𝙖-𝙨𝒂𝙙𝒉𝙖𝒏𝙖'—reversal practice—or '𝒖𝙟𝒂𝙣𝒂 𝒔𝙖𝒅𝙝𝒂𝙣𝒂'—practice of going-against-the-current.

- #LindaHess, 'The Bijak of #Kabir', p. 159

THAT CON MAN HARI HAS CONNED THE WORLD
By #Kabir, tr. #LIndaHess

That con man Hari has conned the world, but brother,
who can live without him?
Who's whose husband? Who's whose wife?
Death's gaze spreads—untellable story.
Who's whose father? Who's whose son?
Who suffers? Who dies?

BEYOND BEYOND
By #Kabir, tr. #LindaHess & #SukdevSingh

"Hermit, that yogi is my guru
who can untie this song.
A tree stands without root,
without flowers bears fruit;
no leaf, no branch, and eight
sky-mouths thundering.

Living in shunya Fifteen years after penning the celebrated bilingual text Singing Emptiness, Dr Linda Hess discusses why translating Kabir’s nirgun bhajans guarantees an intimate appointment with the inner self

A great article about India's rediscovery of the traditions of the performance of #Kabir's songs sparked by the tireless joyful effort of American scholar #LindaHess:

www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...?

Upside-down language should make you feel like a fool:
that is part of its function.

- #LindaHess, 'Bijak of #Kabir'