Mystic Poets of Maharashtra

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

I should really send this in February, when we discuss Jnaneshwar's

Amrita Anubhava, but I'm afraid I might forget. It is a good article

on the famous poets of Maharashtra:

 

 

The Mystic Poets of Maharashtra

 

http://www.sol.com.au/kor/9_03.htm

 

See also

 

http://www.sanathanadharma.com/articles/bhakti.htm

 

Apparently, these poets were especially good at combining advaita

with bhakti, and in general in seeing nonduality in duality, i.e. in

everyday life. There was also an egalitarian struggle against caste

domination, and they spoke in their own Marathi language (instead of

Sanskrit). All this makes their poetry simple, sincere, concrete and

vivid.

 

I was especially struck by this line by Eknath:

 

"When I bathe in the river the water is liquid consciousness!"

 

Now that is exactly how I understood a certain dreaded i-word. Let's

leave it at this.

 

Hari Om!

Benjamin

[Guest guest]

Namste Benji.

 

Nice to see you get out of that idealism outfit and going poetic.

Don't stop at being liquid consciousness. Be coffee, tea and all the

other things of life, including the *dreaded i-word*, when 'you' are

never any more, like the sugar dissolved in your coffee. That is

advaita and you got it right with Eknath. Promise you more of it when

I get to replying Anandaji and later with the pUrNamatha...

discussion scheduled for March.

 

PraNAms.

 

Madathil Nair

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advaitin, Benjamin <orion777ben> wrote:

> I was especially struck by this line by Eknath:

>

> "When I bathe in the river the water is liquid consciousness!"

>

> Now that is exactly how I understood a certain dreaded i-word.

Let's

> leave it at this.