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5. My Dignity & Disrespect is all Yours ! - (Basavanna)

ಬಸವಣ್ಣನವರ ವಚನ

 

ಎನ್ನ ವಾಮ ಕ್ಷೇಮ ನಿಮ್ಮದಯ್ಯ

ಎನ್ನ ಹಾನಿ ವೃದ್ಧಿ ನಿಮ್ಮದಯ್ಯ

ಎನ್ನ ಮಾನ ಅಪಮಾನವೂ ನಿಮ್ಮದಯ್ಯ

ಬಳ್ಳಿಗೆ ಕಾಯಿ ದಿಮ್ಮಿತ್ತೆ, ಕೂಡಲ ಸನ್ಗಮ ದೇವಾ

 

basavaNNanavara vachana

 

 

enna vAma kshEma nimmadayya

enna hAni vR^iddhi nimmadayya

enna mAna apamAnavU nimmadayya

baLLige kAyi dimmitte, kUDala sangama dEvA

 

Meaning

 

(The ownership of) my ill-being and well-being is Yours.

(The ownership of) my decay and growth is Yours.

(The ownership of) my dignity and disrespect is also Yours.

For the creeper is the fruit a load ?

Oh Lord of kUDala sangama

 

Notes

 

1. When the state is unconditional and complete

surrender to God, what is our ownership.

Whatever it comes - be it good or bad - in the

eyes of the world, everything is owned by God.

What the devotee enjoys is the never decaying

bliss in the relationship with the God

Who cannot grow any further !

2. The saints who have completely offered

themselves to God and remain in that state,

any crime committed against them is that committed

against God. They do not care, but God does for

them. The same way the support offered to them

is an offering to God. This is very explicit in the

guru - jangama bhakti.

3. c.f. "Haven't You taken my soul, body and all

belongings to be Yours the same day You took

me as Your devotee ? Can there be a hurdle for

me today ?" - thiruvAcakam.

 

 

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