John Stratton Hawley's Three Bhakti Voices: Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in Their PDF

By John Stratton Hawley

ISBN-10: 019567085X

ISBN-13: 9780195670851

The e-book is a suite of essays written over twenty years yet with consistency of favor, hindrance and argument. it really is divided into components: the 1st, "The Bhakti Poet Saint: Economies of observe and lifestyles" levels over the literature of Bhakti as an entire. the second one half is prepared round person poets: Mira, Sur, and Kabir. Connections among the 3 poets is proven meticulously and convincingly.

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Untouchable') wonderworker (ca~l{iiiljiid17gar). Ghera deduced that this association must represent a vague memory of the incident, reported elsewhere. in which the famous ascetic Gorakhnath came to hold discussions with Ravidas. :1 Thrc<' Rhakti \'oic<'S a pile nf sticks that had been gathered for firewood and plunged it into the gmund near where Gorakhnath sat. Miraculously. a shade tree sprang up to shelter the yogi; that tree. ~ When Ghera's research led to such positive conclusions, he proceeded to solicit funds from camllrs who had attained a measure of wealth either in the Punjab or in England, and before long the foundation was laid for a temple to Ravidas on the site of his birth.

The other two poetsaints whom I choose for this chapter are Narasi Mehta, the foremost exemplar of Gujarati bhakti poetry, and the Rajasthani royal pair Pipadas and his wife Situ. 'Morality beyond Morality' was written for a comparative volume dealing with saintly exemplitude, and my purpose was to show how the Bhaktamiil and its commentary depict bhakti as a moral economy that contrasts to and exceeds the demands of 'ordinary' dhanna. No doubt people turn to the precepts of the dharmasiistras for moral advice.

Rather, they are guiding principles for critical perception-postulates, one might say. And in both cases manuscript variants and different performance practices may well come into play. This moves us in a different direction from what rasa theory has often produced, but I do not wish to give the impression that this sort of commentary is entirely foreign to canons of criticism that have developed in India itself. ISii school well over a millennium ago. ~a) created by the former, fulfilled by the latter, and without which neither would make full sense.

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