About the Book: Burn Down Your House: Provocations From Kabir
Kabir is believed to have been a weaver who lived in Varanasi sometime during
the fifteenth century. Beyond these facts, very little is known about him. Yet,
irrespective of his true historical identity, Kabir is first and foremost a
Bhakti poet, whose dohas and poems questioned social paradigms and created a
multiplicity of radical thoughts that have resonated through the ages,
challenging and empowering millions...
Burn Down Your House is a compilation of Kabirs timeless mystical poetry drawn
from various sources—both oral and textual—interspersed with legends and
anecdotes from the poets life, and an analysis of his beliefs.