Ancient Poet Surdas was a great and devout devotee of Lord Krishna who is the 15th century sightless saint, poet and musician, is known for his
devotional songs dedicated to Lord Krishna.
Surdas is said to have written and composed a hundred thousand songs in his
magnum opus the 'Sur Sagar' (Ocean of Melody),
out of which only about 8,000 are extant. He is considered a saint and so also
known as Sant Surdas, a name which literally means the "slave of
melody".
He has composed and sang number of devotional songs in
praise and glorifying Lord Krishna. Surdas was blind. Whenever he sang Lord
Krishna used to sit in front of him as a child and enjoy the songs and dance to
the tune of the songs of Surdas. Occasionally, Surdas had the vision of Lord
Krishna’s darsan and Surdas never felt sorry for being blind.
One day a doctor approached Surdas and offered
to cure his blindness. Surdas replied. “You are very kind and benevolent in
offering to restore my eye sight- Can you assure me the vision of the Lord
Krishna which ‘am now enjoying even without sight?”.
The doctor had no answer.
Blessed and realized are those who have “vision
even without sight.”
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