येथे का रे उभा श्री रामा...

While staying in Pandharpura, Samartha Ramdāsa Svāmī once asked Lord Vitthal,

“O Śrī Rāma, why are you standing here all alone? Where are Mother Sitā, Lakṣmaṇa, and Hanumāna?” meaning that to Samartha, Viṭhṭhala Himself appeared as Śrī Rāma.

At that very place, he composed a most beautiful Abhanga (devotional verse):

येथे कां रे उभा श्रीरामा| मनमोहन मेघश्यामा ॥ १ ॥

चाप बाण काय केलें । कर कटावरी ठेविले ॥ २ ॥

कां बा धरिला अबोला । दिसे वेष पालटला ॥ ३ ॥

काय जाली अयोध्यापुरी । येथे बसविली पंढरी ॥ ४ ॥

शरयूगंगा काय केली । कैची भीमा मेळविली ॥ ५ ॥

किल्किलाट वानरांचे ।थवे न दिसती तयांचे ॥ ६ ॥

दिसे हनुमंत एकला । हा कां सैन्यांतुनी फूटला ॥ ७ ॥

काय जाली सीता सती । येथे बहुत जन दिसती ॥ ८ ॥

रामदासीं सद्भाव जाणा । राम जाला पंढरिराणा ॥ ९ ॥

“Why are you standing here, O Śrī Rāma,

Charming one, dark as a raincloud?

Where are your bow and arrows?

You’ve placed your hands on your hips!

Why are you silent now?

Your attire looks quite changed.

What happened to the city of Ayodhyā?

You seem to have made Pandharpura your abode.

What of the river Śarayū?

Have you now joined it with Bhīmā?

The joyful cries of the Vānaras are gone

Where are those troops now?

I only see Hanumāna standing here

Has he broken away from your army?

And what of holy Sitā?

There are so many people here instead!

Know this, O devotees of Rāma,

That Rāma himself has become the Lord of Pandharpura.”

The essence: Samartha teaches us to go beyond differences in names and forms.

The underlying message is that the Supreme Reality (Parabrahma Tattva) alone is of true importance. Just as Lord Śiva tells Goddess Pārvatī in the Guru Gitā:

वेदशास्त्रपुराणानि च इतिहासादिकानि च ।

मन्त्रयत्रादिविद्यानां मोहनोच्छाटनादिकम्‌ ॥

शैवशाक्तागमादीनि ह्यन्ये च बहवो मताः ।

अपभ्रंशाः समस्तानां जीवानां भ्रान्तचेतसाम् ॥

[The Vedas, Śāstras, Purānas, and epics;

the sciences of mantras and yantras, and rites for enchantment or exorcism; the Śāiva, Śākta, and other doctrines; all these are merely the distorted understandings of deluded beings.]

Many people worship various deities and consider them the doers. Some say Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the doer, some say Śrī Rāma. Others claim Brahmā, Visṇu, or Śiva is the doer. Different people hold different beliefs. Perhaps this is why Samarth says: “He who chases after multiplicity — drowns.”

For all these deities are made of the five elements and thus, they themselves cannot create this elemental universe. Therefore, to know the true Doer, one must go beyond the realm of the five elements. But then — what is the way?

Samartha gives the answer himself:

सगुणाचेनि आधारे। निर्गुण पाविजे निर्धारे॥

[Through the support of the Saguṇa (the manifest form),‌ one surely realizes the Nirguṇa (the formless Absolute).]

॥ हरिहर अभेद ॥

॥ जय जय रघुवीर समर्थ ॥

Offered at the holy feet of Śrī Samartha.

Written by Amogh Bakre on Āṣāḍhī Ekādaśī Śālivāhana Śaka 1947.

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