Bhagat Parmanand ( pa, ਭਗਤ ਪਰਮਾਨੰਦ) was a

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mystic and saint-poet, one of whose hymns is included in the

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Early Life

Born in

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, Uttarpradesh, in a Gaur

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Family in 1483,सिंह, डॉ॰राजकुमार (जनवरी २००७). विचार विमर्श. मथुरा (उत्तर प्रदेश)- २८१००१: सारंग प्रकाशन, सारंग विहार, रिफायनरी नगर. प॰ १२४. he is believed to have resided at Kannauj.

Legacy

Parmãnand was a devotee of

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and used in his songs the ''nom de plume'' Sarañg, the name of a bird ever thirsty for the raindrop. Parmanand always longed for God whom he worshiped in the

Vaishnavite Vaishnavism ( sa, वैष्णवसम्प्रदायः, Vaiṣṇavasampradāyaḥ) is one of the major Hindu denominations along with Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism. It is also called Vishnuism since it considers Vishnu as the ...

manifestation of Krsna. He used to make, it is said, seven hundred genuflections daily to God on his uncovered, often bleeding, knees. He believe for a long time that God could be worshiped as an Image only, He was the great devotee of lord Shri Nath ji (another name of Shri Krishna).shri Vallabhacbarya was his Guru. Parmanand Das belonged to pushti sampraday. Another Bhakt Surdas ji was his Guru Bhai. Parmanand das ji and Surdas ji both take initiation from the same guru i. e. shri vallabhacharya ji. Parmanand's one hymn incorporated in the

(p. 1253) subscribes to this view. In this hymn, he disapproves of the ritualistic reading and hearing of the sacred books If that has not disposed to the service of fellow beings. He commends sincere devotion which could be imbibed from the company of holy saints. Lust, wrath, avarice, slander have to be expunged for they render all seva, i.e. service, fruitless.

Poetry

This is the 1 Shabad from Parmanand in the

Sri Guru Granth Sahib The Guru Granth Sahib ( pa, ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ, ) is the central holy religious scripture of Sikhism, regarded by Sikhs as the final, sovereign and Guru Maneyo Granth, eternal Guru following the lineage of the Sikh gur ...

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Parmanand was the follower of vishnu.

References

* Excerpts taken from ''Encyclopedia of Sikhism'' by Harbans Singh. Published by Punjabi University, Patiala * ''The Sikh Religion, Vol 6,'', Max Arthur MacAuliff, Oxford University Press, 1909. Sikh Bhagats Indian male poets 15th-century Indian poets {{Sikh-bio-stub