Surdas
1479-1586 107 years
1479-1586 107 years
Indian devotional singer, poet, mystic...
lived in the time of King Akbar of India
blind from childhood
sang bhajans and was connected to the bhakti
movement of his time
the book Sur Sagar, a collection of 8,000
poems (originally 100,000) is attributed to
Surdas.
lived in the time of King Akbar of India
blind from childhood
sang bhajans and was connected to the bhakti
movement of his time
the book Sur Sagar, a collection of 8,000
poems (originally 100,000) is attributed to
Surdas.
| oshobob The Living Workshop |
| People in Osho's Talks |
| There is a story of a Hindu mystic. I don’t believe that it is true because I have been deeply impressed by that mystic’s great sayings; they are so beautiful that it is impossible for me to conceive that he could have done such a thing. Surdas is his name. He was a blind man, not born blind; that’s how the story goes. He destroyed his eyes himself because he saw a beautiful woman and became fascinated by her. She took his fancy, he started thinking of her – and he was a monk. He destroyed his eyes because he thought it was these two eyes that had made him aware of her beauty. If these eyes were not there, he would not have been infatuated. I don’t believe the story, but it is true of thousands of other people. My own experience is that Surdas must have been blind from the very beginning because his insight in his poetry is such that it is inconceivable that such a man will do such a stupid act... --Osho The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 10, ch. 9 |