January 13th 8:00 pm - Drama about Sant Kabir by students

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January 13th

Drama called Sant Kabir in Prasanthi Nilayam

January 13th 8:00 pm - Drama about Sant Kabir by students

 

 

 

This evening another wonderful drama by the students in Sai Kulwant

Hall. The drama was about Sant Kabir and his wonderful messages.

 

Drama began with the birth of Sant Kabir, he was found by a Muslim

couple on the banks of river Ganges. The couple accepts the kid as the

gift from Allah, so they take him to an elder to give him a Name. The

elderly person look in the holy book and finds Kabir and gives the boy

that name. Kabir is also one of names of Allah.

Kabir grows up and in search of God he decides, he needs a master who

can guide him to God. And finds a master in Guru Ramanand, who accepts

him as his disciple even though he is a Muslim. When many of his

students protest and leave him. The Guru says, the river Ganges, the

air, the sun don�t make any discriminations among us. So why should we

human beings the creations of God make such discriminations.

They narrate all the wonderful Kabir dohas (poems) with

wonderful scenery as Kabir makes his livelihood. They show us how Kabir

was well respected in both Hindu and Muslim communities. Once when

during a festival season devotees from both Muslim and Hindu

communities approach Kabir, so that he could make them a cloth for the

festival celebrations. He accepts both their request even though, he

has no time to complete them. When he was working late at night to

finish the cloth, which had to be given in the morning, he falls

asleep. In the morning the devotees from both the communities arrive at

his home and find two beautifully made cloth and wake Kabir up to

congratulate him, on the beautiful work he has done. Only then does

Kabir realize that Lord has performed a miracle to keep his devotees

words. Devotees from both communities leave asking him to visit the

temple and bless them.

 

So

he visit the Dargah (Muslims holy place) and one of the devotee asks

him about animal sacrifices. He says that animal sacrifices should not

be done. What is written in the scriptures is actually to sacrifice the

animal qualities in you not the poor animals. Devotees say only the

true devotees like Kabir can understand the real meaning of all the

scriptures.

Then he visits a Hindu temple and sees that some devotees are not

allowed to enter the temple. So he advises the devotees there and tells

them about how Adi Shankara Charya learned that God is present in all

the Human Beings when He visited the same temple. They show how Adi

Shankara Charya once visiting that temple sees a chandala come in his

way and ask him to move aside. When the man asks him, whom are you

asking to move the body or the soul. Then Adi Shankara Charya realizes

the God in Chandala and offers pranams to his feet. After listening to

these devotees welcome all the people in to the temple.

They also showed how when Kabir was summoned to court of the King after

some complaints from some people accusing him of wrong doing saying he

is causing trouble to religious harmony.

 

Kabir says to the King that he would never do anything to disrespect

God, all are his brothers. When the king gets angry and asks him to

tell the truth, if he wants to leave the court alive. Kabir replies, if

God wants to end this life I will more than happily accept it. King in

anger asks the guards to punish him, when the try to punish Kabir God

punishes the punishers. Soon they realize that they can�t punish Kabir

and ask him for forgiveness.

King realizing his mistake asks for forgiveness and asks Kabir to give

his kingdom a message so that all the people in the kingdom could

follow. Kabir says a Muslim should try to become a better Muslim and a

Hindu should try to become a better Hindu. Love All, Serve All. That�s

way all the citizens can live happily.

 

The

drama ended with a beautiful song, slowly all the students joined in

offering their prayers to Swami. Swami blessed all the performers by

taking photos with them and giving Prasad. Prasadam was also

distributed to all the devotees in Sai Kulwant Hall.

Students once again did a wonderful job of creating a

memorable drama of Sant Kabir. They built a temple and then a mosque

and they ended the drama with both the temple and the mosque standing

side by side. The also had many wonderful songs that Muslim devotees

sing and also some very nice songs the Hindu devotees sing. The

dialogues were in English but the songs were in Hindi.

Click here to see more pictures of the Sant Kabir drama in Prasanthi Nilayam

 

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