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The street to Kabir Math in Varanasi, India

This is the place where Sadguru Kabir Saheb spent all his life. Kabir Saheb was a great Bhakti saint, a great Master who taught humanity as a religion. He said people should not fight for the name of God. He is One but has many names. Ram or Rahim both are His names. His birth and death are surrounded by legends. He grew up in a Muslim weaver family, but some say he was really son of a Brahmin widow who was adopted by a childless couple. Kabir Saheb is/was a saint in both life and death. When he left his body, his Hindu and Muslim followers started fighting about the last rites. The legend is that when they lifted the cloth covering his body, they found flowers instead.A portion of those flowers are found preserved in his samadhi at Kabir Math.