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Bhagat Parmanand
There is a scarcity of authentic material about the life of saint
Parmanand.
Macauliffe holds that he was a resident of Barsi in the Sholapur District of
Maharastra. Some scholars identify him with the Parmananda Das whose name
appears among the Hindi poets of Asht chhap.
Parmanand was a Kankabuj Brahmin and a resident of
Kanauj. He studied at the
feet of Swami Vallabhacharya and graduated to be a great Vaishnava Bhagat and
poet of Brij Bhasha. His verses are collected in the Granth Parmananda Sagar.
Parmanad was a devotee of Krishan who perhaps became a Birankari bhagat. Many
Sargunvadi sadhus by virtue of their long penance and spiritual enlightenment
merged with the formless being.
One of his shabads have been enshrined in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib under
Sarang Raga.
Extracted from Gurbani De Racheta by Abnashi and Gurvinder Singh
Shabad from Parmanand in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib
So what have you accomplished by listening to the
Puraanas?
Faithful
devotion has not welled up within you,
and you have not been inspired to
give to the hungry. || 1 || Pause ||
You have not forgotten sexual desire,
and you have not forgotten anger;
greed has not left you either.
Your mouth has not stopped slandering and
gossiping about others.
Your service is useless and fruitless. || 1 ||
By breaking into the houses of others and robbing them,
you fill your
belly, you sinner.
But when you go to the world beyond, your guilt will be
well known,
by the acts of ignorance which you committed. || 2 ||
Cruelty has not left your mind;
you have not cherished kindness for
other living beings.
Parmaanand has joined the Saadh Sangat, the Company of
the Holy.
Why have you not followed the sacred teachings? || 3 || 1 || 6
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O mind, do not even associate with those who have turned their backs on the
Lord.
Source: snsm.org
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