सन्त सूरदास

Saint Surdas

Around the year 1540, a blind boy was born to a poor Brahmin family in Sihi village near Delhi. Neither the family nor the neighbours cared about that boy. He had three brothers. When the blind boy was three years old, his real name was forgotten by all. Everyone used to call him “Thasur” (blind). The same boy later came to be known as Surdas. Whenever Surdas listened to bhajans, his heart used to dance with joy. He wondered how he could sing? He started meditation. He became a singer at the age of fourteen and everyone started liking him. It was not because he sang well but because he had great reverence and love for God. Due to his devotion and love for God, amazing power developed in him. For example, if a person’s animal or object was lost, Surdas used to tell where to find it. At one point of time, pleased by Surdas’s devotion, God appeared in front of him and gave Surdas his eyesight. Surdas who had not yet seen anything with his gross eyes, was incredibly pleased to see the divine form of God. The devotion of Surdas was so deep and high that he no longer had any desire to see the impure world with his eyes. He wanted to retain just the divine form of God in his mind. When he observed that these gross eyes were deceiving him, he destroyed his eyes. This is the direct proof of the devotion of Surdas.

Spiritual Significance: – Baba says that these eyes are the most deceiving of all the sense organs. Brahmin children must take care of their eyes. You should see everyone as a soul and not body. Baba also says that there is no question of removing your eyes physically, but on the path of knowledge and Yoga, your eyes should be civil . Your vision should be pure, soul to soul.