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Fakiri was born on Gurupurnima 2026.
The mission of Fakiri is to celebrate, translate, preserve and disseminate the teachings, practices and culture of the Indian mystical tradition. Fakiri is the culmination of more than 30 years of practice, study, and cultivation. Fakiri's Founder and Spiritual Director, Harshada Wagner, first traveled to India in 1997 where he made a deep life-long connection.
To learn more about Harshada's spiritual lineage and the spiritual roots of Fakiri, CLICK HERE.
Fakiri is the umbrella organization to support Harshada's teaching work and publishing, but also a resource to help promote the teaching work and publishing of other lineage-based teachers and artists.
Fakiri is a word found in Hindi and Urdu with Arabic roots. The root word faqīr, in Arabic means "poverty", but the word has come to refer to a spiritual renunciate of the highest order. The fakir has little or no material possessions, not because of misfortune, but because they have such spiritual wealth and abundance, they don't want to be distracted. Our name, fakiri, is derived from a famous poem by the 16th century poet-saint Kabir. In the song, fakiri is an energy, a state of being drenched in saburi - divine contentment.
मन लागो मेरो यार फ़कीरी में
मन लागो मेरो यार गरीबी में
जो सुख पायो राम (नाम) भजन में
वो सुख नाहीं अमीरी में
मन लागो मेरो यार फ़कीरी में
हाथ में तुंबा बगल में सोटा
चारों दिशा जागीरी में
मन लागो मेरो यार फ़कीरी में
प्रेम नगर में रहनी हमारी
भली बनी आई सबूरी में
मन लागो मेरो यार फ़कीरी में
आखिर यह तन ख़ाक मिलेगा
क्यों फिरे मगरूरी में?
मन लागो मेरो यार फ़कीरी में
कहें कबीर सुनो भाई साधो
साहिब मिलेगा सबूरी में
Oh friend, my mind has taken to fakiri!
The joy you get in singing the Name,
you won’t get in all the riches of the world.
Oh friend, my mind has taken to fakiri!
A bowl in one hand, a stick in the other,
yet my kingdom stretches in four directions.
Oh friend mind has taken to fakiri!
I dwell in the city of love.
My prosperity is contentment itself.
Oh friend, my mind has taken to fakiri!
In the end, your body will meet with dust.
Why walk so arrogantly?
Oh friend, my mind has taken to fakiri!
Kabir says, listen seekers:
We meet the Divine in Divine Contentment
Oh friend, my mind has taken to fakiri!
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