Sri VijayaDasaru
(Ondu chintane)
Sri Vijaya Dasaru is respected and adored as one of the greatest Haridasas this land has seen. He is credited with the revival of the Haridasa movement in the eighteenth century. He not only composed thousands of devaranamas himself, but also personally sought and trained several disciples to ensure that the movement endured for a long time. He was a junior contemporary of Sri Vadeendra Teertha and visited Mantralaya several times. He is supposed to have seen and conversed with Rayaru personally several times.
Some of the devaranamas composed by him reveal insights that ordinary people would never get. In one song (“noDide gurugaLa noDide ..”), he talks of seeing Lord Narasimha, Rama, Vedavyasa and Krishna on the four sides of the Vrindavana, all the Gurus from Acharya Madhva down to his own guru present within the Vrindavana, and Lord Lakshminarayana in the form of a discus (chakra) granting the desires of devotees.
Sri GuruRayaru’s influence on haridasas:
Unlike his previous incarnation as Sri Vyasa Teertha, Rayaru did not compose many devaranamas or train Haridasas. But his presence in Mantralaya acted as a catalyst for bhakti and haridasa movement to flourish in the surrounding areas. All the major Haridasas who came after him were mainly from those areas. It is amazing to see such a high incidence of Haridasas coming from one area. This is against the laws of probability and can be explained only by the presence of Rayaru in Mantralaya. It became a tradition for every haridasa who came after Rayaru to visit Mantralaya and render seve to Rayaru. We see compositions of great Haridasas lavishing their respect and affection for Rayaru.
अज्ञानतिमिरच्छेदं बुद्धिसंपत्प्रदायकम् ।
विज्ञान विमलं शांतं विजयाख्य गुरु०भजे ॥
ಅಜ್ಞಾನತಿಮಿರಚ್ಛೇದಂ ಬುದ್ಧಿಸಂಪತ್ಪ್ರದಾಯಕಮ್ ।
ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ವಿಮಲಂ ಶಾಂತಂ ವಿಜಯಾಖ್ಯ ಗುರು೦ಭಜೇ ।।
nAham kArtA hAriH kArtA
On the eve of Sri VijayaDasara punya thithi on (Karthika Sukla Dasami) here is my miniscule script on the great HariDasaru.
(PDF Link below...)
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