Hope for the Guest

Kabir was a mystic poet and saint in india. He is most remembered for his religious community called 'the path of Kabir', Whose members number about 9,600,000 and are dispersed throughout central and north india. Much of his history is of legend, but it is known that he was raised among muslim weavers. He was raised totally illiterate and could only write the word 'Rama', referring to the seventh avatar of vishnu. According to legend, he lived to be 120 years old. A Famous legend states that after his death, his hindu and muslim followers fought over the rites. They then lifted the veil over his body and he had turned into flowers, which they split up, muslims burying them, hindi cremating them. his religious beliefs are a culmination of hinduism and islam. He accepts the idea of reincarnation and is a monotheist at the same time.

The poem I chose, Friend, Hope for The Guest While You Are Alive, basically covers the idea that you should live and experience earth while you are alive. You should find salvation before you die otherwise in the next life you will regret it. The word Guest could be interpreted to mean different things. The dictionary definition of a guest is something that takes a host in some form or another. Guest could mean happiness and liveliness, taking host in the soul. Or it could mean a god of some sort. but the general idea of the poem is clear. Live in the moment, it is the only time you own.

"Do you realize? That everyone you know, someday, will die. And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know you realize that life goes fast, its hard to make the good things last, you realize the sun don't go down, its just an illusion caused by the world spinning round"-The Flaming Lips

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Works Cited

"Bill Moyers Talks with Poet Robert Bly." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 13 May 2014. <http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08312007/transcript1.html>.

Kabir, The Biography of. "The Biography of Kabir." Poemhunter.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2014.

"Kabir." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 05 Dec. 2014. Web. 13 May 2014.