uv ravindra and sushil sharma deenan dukh haran dev santan hitakaarii ajaamiil giidh byaadh inamen kah kaun saadh panchhii ko pada padhaat ganikaasii taarii 1 dhruv ke sar chhatra det prahlaad ko ubaar let bhakt het baandhyo set lankapurii jaarii 2 tandul det riijh jaat saag paat son aghaat ginat nahin juuthe phal khaate miithe khaarii 3 itane hari aaye gaye basanan aaruudh bhaye suuradaas dvaare khado aandharo bhikaarii 4 newpage some mythological stories to help understand the bhajan i ajaamila sanskrit name is a character from the srimad bhagavatam the story as i remember it in short is that ajamila is a braahman who gets involved with a woman of loose morals gives up his family and begins living with this woman and in the process ends up leading a life full of sin as ajamila is lying on his death bed he sees the horrifying spectre of a yamadoota approaching him in order to take away his life breath and this causes him to remember and scream out the name of the person dearest to him in his life his young son naaraayana naaraayana thats it a vishnudoota roaming nearby overhears this thinks this poor man is invoking vishnus name and drives away the yamadoota so ajamila gets a new lease of life eventually ajamila regrets his bad deeds renounces the world and accumulating punya due to his penitence and penance that he ends up going to heaven the moral of the story supposedly is that if you invoke the name of the lord even by proxy as ajamila did your sins are washed away im not sure i agree about this moral part but okay whatever ii giidh refers to jataayu while he was born in the lowly lifeform of a vulture he is said to have been blessed by rama at the time of his death rama himself performed the last rites for jataayu well known story from ramayana iii byaadh birdhunter baheliyaa in hindi a very sinful profession according to hindu sacredbooks here it refers to the byaadh named ratnaakar who had a change of heart after sage narada enlightened him and became sage valmiki the legendary author of the ramayana according to some other commentaries the byaadh might also refer to the hunter who shot krishna in the heel thus causing his departure from the mortal world ie death this byaadh was blessed by krishna just before he left for his heavenly abode iv ganikaa courtesanharlot when parashuraam vaishya died of asthma his wife left him choosing to become a courtesanprostitute instead but she taught her pet parrot to say raama and in teaching this word to the bird ended up reciting it umpteen times thanks to having repeatedly uttered raamanaam with a pure heart ie with no personal gain in mind except for teaching the bird she was blessed and received mukti after her death v sudaamaa wellknown story of krishnas poor classmate krishna ate the grains of rice sudama brought him as a gift and blessed him with health wealth and eternal happiness in return vi vidura and his wife again a wellknown story from the mahabharata and the srimadbhagavatam viduras wife offered plain saagpaat banana peels according to another version to krishna which he relished and of course blessed the host and hostess in return vii shabarii old tribeswoman from the ramayana who offered fruits that she had tasted herself and thus turned juuthe to rama her unconventional rural and simpleminded yet purehearted loving aatithya hospitality towards rama led him needless to say to grant her the boon of salvation viii draupadii when this helpless queen of pandavas was at the point of being disrobed publicly she cried out calling krishna for help who immediately stationed himself aaruudh bhaye in her garments vasanan to the effect that duhshaasan who was rumoured to have the might of thousands of elephants in his arms could not pull the garment away from her ix gaja refers to the story of gajendramoksha srimad bhagavatam the elephant kind gajendra struggles against an alligator which had caught his gajendras foot as he was drinking water as it becomes apparent to gajendra that he is fighting a losing battle and is about to be sucked into the water he petitions vishnu to come to his rescue which vishnu promptly does riding his garuda gajendra is granted freedom not only from the jaws of the crocodile but also from the jaws of this mortal world moksha
