Early life and background
Kabir Saheb was born in 1398 (Samvat 1455), on the full moon day of Jyeshtha month at the time of Brahmamuharta. Followers believe that Kabir came from Satlok by assuming the body of light and incarnated on a lotus flower and claim that Rishi Ashtanand Ji was the direct witness of this incident, who himself appeared on a lotus flower in the lake "Lahartara".[citation needed] In fact, there is a Kabirpanth on the Lahartara lake today which reinforces this very belief.
Kabir is widely believed to have become one of the many disciples of the Bhakti poet-sant Swami Ramananda in Varanasi, known for devotional Vaishnavism with a strong bent to monist Advaita philosophy teaching that God was inside every person, everything.[3][8][9] Early texts about his life place him with Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism as well as the Sufi tradition of Islam.[10] According to Irfan Habib, the two manuscript versions of the Persian text Dabistan-i-Mazahib are the earliest known texts with biographical inf
