Kabir Sant

Indian mystic and poet. He tried to unite Hindu and Muslim thought and preached the essential unity of all religions. His disciple Guru Nanak was the founder of Sikhism. Kabir was brought up by a Muslim weaver and later influenced by a Hindu ascetic, Ramananda. He took the best tenets of both Hinduism and Islam and preached his own religion called sahaja-yoga ('simple union'). From Hinduism, he took the ideas of transmigration and the law of karma and from Islam, he accepted the idea of one God and the equality of all men before God.