Posted on: 26 Jun 2021
अस्पृश्यता हि न पापि सङ्गः ।
शबरी दष्ट फलाशन दत्त! ।। (पल्लवी)
aspṛśyatā hi na pāpi saṅgaḥ ।
śabarī daṣṭa phalāśana datta! ।। (Chorus)
O God Datta, the one who ate the fruits tasted by the untouchable lady called Śabarī! Untouchability means keeping away the sinners so that their sinful qualities will not enter us through association.
कृषिकरणं पितृ पशु मश्नाति ।
क्षीरं पीत्वा मातृपशुं च ।।
kṛṣikaraṇaṃ pitṛ paśu maśnāti ।
kṣīraṃ pītvā mātṛpaśuṃ ca ।।
The fifth untouchable caste resulted due to boycotting sinners from all these four castes. Such horrible sins of these sinners were:- 1) Cutting and eating the bulls and he-buffalos in their old age, who helped in ploughing the land for agriculture and which are like father. 2) After drinking milk taken from cows and buffalos, cutting and eating such mother like animals in their old age.
छात्र बहिष्कृति परिवर्तनार्थ-
दण्डः पुत्रे न धर्म मतः ।।
chātra bahiṣkṛti parivartanārtha-
daṇḍaḥ putre na dharma mataḥ ।।
The boycotted untouchable was a sinner. But, his issue shall not be boycotted as a sinner. Such boycotting is not justified. If a student was debarred from the school for his indiscipline for somedays to bring reformation in him, based on that point, his son shall not be boycotted by the school.
तवाऽक्षि पदगत मस्पृश्य पदम् ।
बोधयसि च शङ्कर मस्पृश्य! ।।
tavā'kṣi padagata maspṛśya padam ।
bodhayasi ca śaṅkara maspṛśya! ।।
The foot of untouchable hunter is touching near a place of Your eye. You appeared as untouchable to Śaṇkara in Kāśī and preached Him the right practical knowledge.
[A hunter gave his one eye to rectify one eye of Lord Śiva. Then, the next eye of God Śiva also started bleeding. In order to pluck his second eye and place it over the second bleeding eye of Śiva, the hunter placed his foot near that bleeding eye of God for the sake of the recognition of the place. When Śaṇkara asked Lord Datta in the disguise of untouchable person to move away, Lord Datta preached Him the true practical spiritual knowledge to Śaṇkara.]
जन्म बन्धुपदतो गुण कुलात् ।
चण्डाल पदं क्रूर गुणे ।।
janma bandhupadato guṇa kulāt ।
caṇḍāla padaṃ krūra guṇe ।।
The word ‘bandhʊ (relative) must be used if somebody is born in a caste without possessing the qualities of that caste. For example, a Brāhmaṇa born in the caste of Brāhmaṇas without having the qualities of Brāhmaṇa caste, such a person can be called as ‘Brahma bandhu’ (related to caste of Brāhmaṇas), but, he should never be called as Brāhmaṇa. He is called Brāhmaṇa only when he is possessing the prescribed qualities of Brāhmaṇ-caste. Similarly, the word ‘canḍāla’ means cruelty and anger. Any person, who is cruel alone must be called as canḍāla irrespective of his birth in any caste.