Kabir Das(1398-1518)
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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.