Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Learned friend, I saw your great god Shiva riding along on a white bull.
In a merchant's house a feast was made ready for him, and in that story the merchant lost his son.
Namdev gently asks the Pandit to look again at the stories he treats as final.
Mahaaday-o Dha-ulay balad charhi-aa — Mahadev, the great god Shiva, riding a white bull. Namdev says he saw him coming. Then he recalls an old tale where a feast was made for Shiva at a merchant's house, and the merchant's son died. It is a story of grief and hard turns.
Namdev is not attacking Shiva. He is questioning the idea that these storied forms are the last word. Think of a famous hero in a movie. Even in their own story, they face loss and mistakes. The great figures of the old tales lived inside something larger. Only the One is beyond every limit.
Why might it be a mistake to treat any single story as the whole truth?
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