India, June 7 -- Kabir's voice echoes through time, calling seekers to authenticity and courage.

Every era produces a few who seem not to belong to it. For their contemporaries, their being and expression seems overly bold, too inconvenient, too unsettling. Still, their words transcend centuries, like a wildfire that refuses to be put out. One such phenomenon was Sant Kabir. As Kabir Jayanti approaches on June 11, let us hear this roar of wisdom echo once again-deep, raw, and fearless. To speak of Sant Kabir is not to speak of a distant figure from the annals of Indian mysticism.

For those who can listen, he is not a poet from the past, but an eternal flame within - one that neither flickers nor flatters, but only illuminates. He is not...