Kabir, quoted from Arun Shourie, Preparing: For Death. Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 2020. ISBN 935305978X, 9789353059781
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Bones burn, the wood burns, the one lighting the pyre burns And so does the one seeing them all burn, from whom may I seek solace . . .

— Kabir on Cremation

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Bones burn, the wood burns, the one lighting the pyre burns And so does the one seeing them all burn, from whom may I seek solace . . ." in the context of "Kabir, quoted from Arun Shourie, Preparing: For Death. Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 2020. ISBN 935305978X, 9789353059781" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Kabir

About Kabir

Kabir (1440–1518) was an Indian poet, mystic and philosopher, and one of the Northern India Sants.