! ! Kabir Reading 'Kabir'

See this fine manuscript so beautifully illuminated round the picture – why, it’s none other than Kabir! reading a book entitled The Poems of Kabir; he’s smiling, laughing, waving his hands – how can he be enjoying himself so much? The manuscript doesn’t tell you this; only Kabir can tell you, in that other place.. of all the poems, he only recognises two as poems that he wrote himself.. but here’s Kabir’s delight today: many of the other poems, he thinks, could pass for his! How wonderful to be so praised in spirit! As he reads – see, he’s circled round with angels; they’re all laughing too.