Bhaja Govindam

[Guest guest]

The popular story/myth behind the composition of Bhaja Govindam by

Adi Sankara goes something like this : In Varanasi, while with a group of

disciples, he saw an elderly man, almost on his last legs, busily trying to

learn the rules of grammar. His reaction to that was to tell the old man that

there was a time and place for everything, and that the appropriate action

for a person such as him (the old man, i.e.) was -Bhaja Govindam, ...,-

Therefore, addressing the old man as a fool (-mUDha-), he asks him

to chant the name of Govinda (-Bhaja Govindam, mUDhamate-).

 

Regards

 

Srinivas