कबीर सोयी सूरमा

कबीर सोयी सूरमा, मन सूं मांदे झूझ| पंच प्यादा पारी ले, दूर करे सब दूज||

Kabir says he is the real warrior who can engage with the mind and bring it under control ; he subjugates the five soldiers and removes all dualities.

Kabir uses the imagery of the war and warriors to drive home his point.Kabir talks of the following five afflictions of the mind and the various dualities.He is the real warrior who can control his mind and its senses, attenuate the five afflictions(Kleshas) and remove all dualities.

The Yogasutra of Patanjali says that there are five afflictions of the mind that need to be attenuated to attain the yoking with God .(अविद्या अस्मिता राग द्वेष अभिनिवेष पञ्च क्लेशाः )

Yogasutra further says that there are these four kinds of dualities that lead to ignorance .This ignorance is the cause of all other afflictions of the mind.These dualities are, Considering as everlasting what is ephemeral,pure what is impure,happiness what is unhappiness and self what is the non-self (अनित्य अशुचि दुःख अनात्मसु नित्य शुचि सुख आत्मख्यातिः अविद्या )

Kabir's effort is to bring the most esoteric principles near the heart of the commonest and unread persons by using common language and imagery.It is due to such great poets that the common man in India understands and talks about so much of our Indian philosophy.Such Gurus or teachers show us how the toughest lessons can be made to look so simple and worth embracing by one and all

Arvind Mishra