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Ravidas

Prabhuji Tum Chandan Ham Pani

A beloved Ravidas bhajan of intimate belonging.

Why return to it: Its images make devotion relational: sandalwood and water, lamp and wick, beloved and devotee.

Included here: Source-safe original/transliteration where appropriate and a poetic English rendering.

Original / source note

Prabhuji, tum chandan ham pānī
Jākī ang-ang bās samānī.

English transliteration

Prabhuji, tum chandan ham pānī
Jākī ang-ang bās samānī.

Poetic English rendering

Lord, you are sandalwood and I am water. Your fragrance enters every part of me until even my ordinary life begins to carry your scent.