Consider the following statements about Kabir 1 Kabir rsquo s teachings were based on complete indee...........

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Consider the following statements about Kabir

1. Kabir’s teachings were based on complete, indeed vehement, rejections of the major religious traditions.

2. His teachings openly ridiculed all forms of external worship of both Brahmanical Hinduism and Islam.

3. The language of his poetry was a form of spoken Hindi.

4. He drew his followers from among both Hinduism and Islam.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

1 and 2 only

1 and 4 only

2, 3 and 4 only

All of the above

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Explanation:

Kabir's poetry is a mixture of Hindi, Khari boli, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Urdu, Persian and Marwari. He preached Bhakti or ‘Devotion’ through the medium of his ‘Dohas’.

He emphasized that love was the only medium which could bind the entire human kind in an unbreakable bond of fraternity.
Kabir preached Monotheism.
In Kabir’s dictum the Teacher or ‘Guru’ has been accorded the prime position. The teacher according to him was the incarnation of God. Kabirs had this realization only when he came in contact with Ramananda.
Kabir asserted the impermanence of all things in the world.
Liberation or salvation was another contention of Kabir. Liberation implied freedom from the pangs of life and death. Liberation according to him was a state of “fearlessness”.
He stressed that in God’s creation all were equal. He advised his followers to give up such inhuman practices as untouchability, feelings of high and low etc. He further opposed idol worship.
Due to the realism that Kabir professed, he attracted both hindus and muslims to his philosophies