ascending Tamo Guna, You assume the fierce aspect of Rudra.
5. Sometimes You play childish pranks like Shri Krishna and converting
the devotees' minds into pools of water, sport in them like the swan.
6. If one were to take You to be a Yavana (i.e., non-Hindu), You delight
in sandal-paste; if one were to regard You to be a Hindu, you always
reside in a Masjid.
7. If one were to take You to be a wealthy person, You beg Your livelihood.
If You were to be taken as a mere Fakir, You shame Kubera (Croesus)
by Your liberal gifts.
8. If Your abode is taken for a Masjid, a Fire burns there perpetually in a
Dhuni from which You give Udi (holy ash) to all and sundry.
9. From early morning Your humble devotees worship You and at mid-day
they perform Your Aarati.
10. On all Your four sides, Your devotees gather like multitudes of
insentient things and wave the chowries and chamaras to keep You cool and
comforted.
11. There is then a din of the sounds of horns, sanais and other musical
instruments and the gong sounds the loudest and orderlies pace to and fro
yelling out to keep order.
12. When the Aarati is being performed, You look like Vishnu sitting on His
shining throne. In the evening, sitting near the Dhuni, You burn your
worldly likes and desires.
13. Such Leelas of the three Gods You show every day and thus project to us
the image of Baba Sai.
14. Though a witness to such Leelas, my mind restlessly wanders all around.
Now, I pray, You please still and steady it.
15. I am the meanest of the mean sinners and prostrate at Your feet. Now,
Guru Raj, relieve Ganu Das of the triad of afflictions, adhyatmic, adhidaivic
and adhibhautic to which he is heir."
R. S. Gavankar
Bombay-400052
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