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Turn Me to Gold 108 Poems of Kabir with Andrew Harvey Who is Kabir? Kabir is the greatest mystical poet of India. He lived between 1440-1527 in what was then Benares, and which is now Varanasi. He did not write his songs, but sang them and they became beloved by Muslims, Hindus and the Sikh gurus who placed hundreds of them in the core Sikh scriptures. His work has the directness of Jesus and the exalted mystical intensity of Rumi and with Rumi, he is the one of humanities two universal mystical poets. After authoring more than 30 books, Andrew Harvey, Rumi scholar, mystic and founder of Sacred Activism, is releasing what may be his consummate work, Turn Me to Gold: 108 Poems of Kabir. Born in India and deeply influenced by its mystic traditions, Andrew became enraptured not only with the exquisite spiritual illumination he discovered in Kabir, but also in the poet’s grounding relevance to our troubled times. “Unlike Rumi,” writes Harvey, “Kabir is the tough, no-nonsense peasant who makes things real and