Madhava Dasar, Madhava Dasar Katha, who is Madhava Dasar, Madhava Dasar bhakti songs..
Madhavdas was a Brahmin exalted in morality. By birth and morality, he was endowed with all the interests of a Brahmana. He lived like the great King and sage Janaka. Besides studying the four Vedas, he also studied the Vedic Vedantas, Vaiseshika, Pattam, Prabhakaram, Purva Mimamsa and Uttara Mimamsa. The goal of his life is to worship the Lord and to support his devotees. While doing this, his wife separated and went to the Lord’s feet. After the death of his wife, he went to Jagannath Kshetra after donating all his belongings to the poor and needy.
He reached Jagannatha, took a dip in the ocean and went to the Lord’s shrine. When the priests saw him standing empty-handed, they said, who are you? Is this how you come to the Lord’s darshan? He came out of the shrine and sat in a lonely hall and meditated. He sat there for three days without food.
The Lord looked at Rukmini’s aunt and said, “Rukmini, our true friend Madhavadasan is meditating without sleep. Give him food.” Rukmini Devi stood in front of Madhavdas with a swan like jasmine flower with ghee and curry leaves in a golden bowl.
Das removed the nishad and asked who was the mother standing in front of him. The Goddess said to the Lord, “Eat this, and then you will get the darshan of the Lord.” Rukmini Prattiyar gave her food and water, washed her hands and feet, and disappeared. Dasar slept with the gold plate under his head.
The next morning. As soon as the sanctum sanctorum was opened, the priest screamed for a drink, but when he saw Madhvadas on the disk, the Sripada bearers who did not listen to him did not listen to him, caught hold of him, tied him tightly to a rope and locked him in a room. Thinking that this was also a good thing, Dasa used the room to meditate on the penance.
The priests who tried to apply it to the shrine were hesitant to see that the puja was being interrupted. That night, Lord Jagannath appeared in the dream of the priest and explained the greatness of Madhavadas and said that he would not accept the puja unless he was released and respected.
The priest was startled. He explained the matter to others as well. Then they all went with the courtesy of the temple, opened the room in which he was sitting, cut off the ropes, and fell on his papers, begging for forgiveness. Later, they went to the shrine and performed archanas and offered prasadam.
One day in the rainy season, when Das was suffering from cold, the Lord Himself came and wrapped his Peethambaram in a blanket, and all those who knew this were amazed at the mercy of the Lord on him.
This news reached the king as well. The king himself came and worshipped him. As his fame spread, someone always came and bowed down. Thinking that this was a hindrance to meditation, he went to Mathurapuri. There, too, the priests insulted him and chased him away, and the Lord Himself came and ate with him. There, in Mathurapuri, Das was suffering from severe diarrhoea and the Lord Himself came as a young man to fetch water wash and dry his clothes. After that, the disease was cured.
After some time, a logician came to argue with him. We know the story of Lord Shiva carrying firewood for Bana in Madurai, the land of my home. The Tiruvilayalapuranam and the Sivalilaarnavam tell us that the man who came before dawn ran away when he was playing the veena to the shame of his friend. But here, for Madhavadas, God himself took the form of him and won over him as a logician and made them become friends. He also took Madhvadasa, the logician who had come to argue, as his guru, and he himself engaged in the work of spreading fame, and made his eloquence and knowledge an instrument of service to God.
“OM SRI MADHAVA DASARE NAMO NAMAHA”
WRITTEN BY
R. HARISHANKAR