Sant bahinabai chaudhari poem
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Bahinabai Chaudhari
Marathi language poet (–)
For the seventeenth century Varkari saint, see Bahinabai.
Bahinabai Chaudhari | |
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Born | 24 August ()[1] Asoda, Bombay Presidency, British India (in-present Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, India) |
Died | December 3, () (aged71) Jalgaon, Bombay State, India (in-present Maharashtra, India) |
Occupation | Farmer |
Language | Khandeshi, Marathi[2] |
Education | None |
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Genre | Dramatic |
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Spouse | Nathu Chaudhari (m.; died) |
Children | 3 |
Bahinabai Chaudhari (24 August – 3 December ) was a Khandeshi language language poet from Jalgaon district of Bombay State, India. She became a noted poet posthumously.
Early life
[edit]Bahinabai was born in a Mahajan family at Asode in Khandesh region of the present-day Jalgaon district on the 24
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Bahinabai
Indian Hindu Saint (–)
Not to be confused with Bahinabai Chaudhari.
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Born | () Devgaon rangari near Ellora, Maharashtra, India |
Died | (aged7172) |
Burial place | Shivoor, Vaijapur, Aurangabad |
Notable work | Autobiography Atmamanivedana or Bahinibai Gatha, devotional abhangas, Pundalika-Mahatmya |
Honors | Sant in Marathi, meaning "Saint" |
Bahinabai (– AD) or Bahina or Bahini was a female Varkari saint from Maharashtra, India. She is considered a disciple of the Varkari poet-saint Tukaram. Having been born in a Brahmin family, Bahinabai was married to a widower at a young age and spent most of her childhood wandering around Maharashtra along with her family. She describes, in her autobiography Atmamanivedana, her spiritual experiences with a calf and visions of the Varkari's patron deity Vithoba and Tukaram. She reports being subjected to verbal and physical abuse by her husband, who despised her spiritual inclination but wh
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Bahinabai: This Farmer-Poet Was Illiterate, yet She Has Life Lessons for Us All to Live By!
Her writing is away from all literary influences, as she never had a chance to read any. It seems to be thoroughly soaked bygd her enskild worldview and the people around her.
When Sopan once asked her – “Mother you toil so hard every day, at home and in the farm and your eyes are always downcast, then how do you come up with such extraordinary thoughtful and imagery words that none of us gets?”
Bahinabai answered – “Sopan, my dearI can see heaven in the mirror of this earth”
Bahinabai died at Jalgaon on 3rd månad at the age of Although many of Bahinabais poems were lost, of them could be preserved.
‘आला सास, गेला सास, जीवा तुझं रे तंतर,
अरे जगनं-मरनं एका सासाचं अंतर!’
(Breathing begins- Breathing ends, thats what life means
What separates life and death is but merely a breath)
Bahinabai Choudhari