1946 |
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16, 1946 |
Kabir
Bedi is born in Lahore, British India (now Pakistan), shortly
before the
Partition (1947).
Kabir Bedi may have been named after the well-known North-Indian
15th century poet/guru KABIR, (born around 1440 - died 1518), -
a contemporary, perhaps his mentor - of Guru Nanak (1469-1539).
Kabir's teachings are significant to Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims.
Kabir, the poet, said: "Jump into experience while you are alive! Think
and think while you are alive! ... Plunge into the Truth, find out who the Teacher
is. Break your ropes while you are alive!"
Kabir Bedi has an elder brother, Ranga Bedi (born 1934, in Berlin, Germany).
Kabir
Bedi's father
Baba Phyare Lal Bedi (April
5, 1909, Punjab - March 31, 1993, Rivarolo (To) near Turin),
known also as Baba Bedi XVI
M.A. (Pb.) B.A. Hons. (Oxon),
Alexander Von Humboldt Research Scholar (Berlin),
an internationally well-known guru and philosopher,
particularly popular in Italy, where his work has also been published.
Baba Bedi studied at the University of the Punjab, in Oxford,
Berlin, Heidelberg and Geneva.
He founded the "Centro di Filosofia Acquariana" in Milan.
He was also Director of the "World Centre for Conscience".
Baba is a term of respect for a father or a holy
man
Bedi is the name of the dynasty/clan to which Guru Nanak, the
founder of the Sikh religion, belonged.
Kabir Bedi's
mother
Freda Marie Houlston Bedi (1911-1977),
British (from Derbyshire), later ordained as a Sister, the Ven.
Gelongma Karma Khechog Palmo.
As a nun, she was also widely known as "Mummy".
Baba had met Freda Marie at St Hughes, Oxford where they both
were reading philosophy and political economics.
They married in Britain in 1933 - one of the first marriages
between a British woman and an Indian man - and then lived in
Berlin, Germany, for about a year to continue their studies at
the Alexander
von
Humboldt
Universität, but soon decided to leave Nazi Germany.
In Lahore, the Bedis were among a group of people who published
a weekly political newspaper called Monday Morning. |
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