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6. Can anyone become a great saint ? - (Basavanna)

ಬಸವಣ್ಣನವರ ವಚನ

 

ಉಮ್ಬ ಬಟ್ಟಲು ಬೇರೆ ಕಂಚಲ್ಲ

ನೋಡುವ ದರ್ಪಣ ಬೇರೆ ಕಂಚಲ್ಲ

ಬಾಂಡ ಒಂದೆ ಭಾಜನ ಒಂದೆ

ಬೆಳಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡಿಯೆನಿಸಿನಿತ್ತಯ್ಯಾ.

ಅರಿದಡೆ ಶರಣ ಮರೆದಡೆ ಮಾನವ

ಮರೆಯದೆ ಪೂಜಿಸು ಕೂಡಲಸಂಗನ.

 

basavaNNanavara vachana

 

 

umba baTTalu bEre kanchalla

nODuva darpaNa bEre kanchalla

bA.nda o.nde bhAjana o.nde

beLage kannaDiyenisinittayyA.

aridaDe sharaNa maredaDe mAnava

mareyade pUjisu kUDalasa.ngana.

 

Meaning:

 

The vessel used for eating is not a different bronze and

the mirror is not made of different bronze.

Material is the same; Nature is the same;

When polished it shines as the mirror.

If realizes (s/he) is a sharaNa;

If forgotten then (ordinary) human being.

(So) worship without forgetting the One in kUDalasangama

 

Notes:

 

1. Bronze was used in earlier times as mirror.

When shaped and polished well, it reflects the objects.

2. Whenever there is a spiritual leader emerging lots

of propaganda made stating so and so is an avatAr of

some divine or associated things. (This is done more so

by the followers than the spiritual people themselves )

Why ? Can't there be a good reverence to that person

on his/her own merit ? Or is it that by claiming they are

avatArs the rest are simply washing away their hands in

the spiritual duty, that it is to be done only by avatars and

not by the normals like them.

   But isn't there an ingenuity in them as compared to the

rest of the world ? Definitely there could be. But it is out

of the austerity they made to seek God in whatever little

proportions in the earlier births that got them this gift.

Originally all were the same material. But the ones who

shaped and polished themselves by seeking the God

the Ultimate Truth shine Its glory through them, the

rest just continue to be the old bronze accumulating dirt.

sharaNas got secured at the Feet of God and

the rest who didn't seek are just the same mortals.

There is no question of what one is today, but it is the

effort one makes in worshiping God today that would

determine the future course.

 

(It is not intended to mean that none of the great

devotees are avatArs. But just to say that avatAr concept

should not be misused and every one can reach the

glorious state if there is effort and the blessing of God.)

 

 

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