मोको कहाँ ढूँढे बंदे,
मैं तो तेरे पास में।
Where do you seek me, traveller —
I am beside you, always.
Kabir · fifteenth century
Bahinabai accepted the most conservative ideal available to a 17th-century Maharashtrian woman — and used it to do something the rules forbid. A theology in which obedience becomes a form of authorship, and a woman's disqualification becomes her credential.
bhaktisaints · 14 minutes
One · The lives
संत
21 lives, sketched not as hagiography but as ways of being in the world.
All 21 →Two · The questions
विषय
The recurring concerns of Bhakti — devotion, refusal, caste, the body, the vernacular tongue.
Three · The voices
वाणी
A growing anthology of bhajans, abhangas, dohas and pasurams — original, transliterated, translated.
Bhakti Saints is a slow editorial project on the poets, mystics and reformers who shaped seven centuries of devotional life across the Indian subcontinent. New work appears irregularly, in the rhythm of writing rather than publishing.