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Ravidas

Prabhuji Tum Chandan Ham Pānī

A Ravidas bhajan of intimacy through images of sandalwood and water.

Why return to it: It makes devotion relational: the beloved and devotee touch, scent, and complete one another.

Source note: Traditional bhajan associated with Ravidas; short source-safe rendering provided.

Original / noted line

Prabhuji Tum Chandan Ham Pānī

Prabhuji, tum chandan ham pānī — your fragrance enters every part of me.

English transliteration

Transliteration

Prabhuji, tum chandan ham pānī — tumhārī sugandh mere ang-ang mein bas jāe.

Poetic English rendering

Rendering

You are sandalwood, I am water. Let your fragrance travel through me until separation becomes impossible.