Bhagat Parmanand

Bhagat Parmanand Das (1483 – 1574; Brahmin family of Kannauj (located in present-day Uttar Pradesh) in 1483. He is believed to have born at Kannauj and resided at present-day Pandharpur, Maharashtra.

Legacy Parmãnand was a devotee of Vishnu 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 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 a 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 hymn, which was incorporated in the Guru Granth Sahib (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 (selfless service) fruitless.

Poetry This is the 1 Shabad from Parmanand in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib: SGGS Page 1253

Parmanand's Mahārāsa verse 776