Kabir's Hut

The dais where Sant Kabir used to give his sermons now has a Kutia (shed) built over it. Before this, Sant Kabir used to live on the present day Neeru Teela, and it was here that he was brought up. Near Kabir’s house was a colony of kasais or butchers (generally such a colony was called Galkatton ki basti). After Kabir took deeksha (to pledge a Guru mantra) from Swami Ramanand, huge gatherings started to come to listen to him. Kabir used to work on the weaver’s handloom (kargha) most of the day and enlightened the gatherings in the remaining time. Gradually the people started coming in larger numbers such that the space available in front of Kabir’s house was no longer sufficient. Just opposite Kabir’s house in the butchers’ colony, goats were chopped every day; something that Kabir’s followers detested. When this issue was taken to Kabir, he said that one should be absorbed and occupied with whatever one does, ‘let the butchers do their job while you do yours’. In order to give his followers the true import of his words, he recited to them the following:

Kabira Teri Jhonpdi, Galkatton Ke Paas
Jo Karega So Bharega, Tum Kyon Hot Udaas