Refrain: Tudh Bhane Toon Bhavain ("If you please you are pleasing")

Composition 20130

Date: Aug 21, 2020 10AM

Composed in Raag Maajh, "I am bathed in you" ... an area inside the rivers

Inspired by listening to Pandit Maniram and Pandit Jasraj.  Someone sent me the video below this morning. I loved the mix of vilambit and normal/addition of dhrupad gayiki to bhajan gayaki. I have been trying to add dhrupad elements to kirtan singing; and it seems like I was not the only one who came up with the idea. It was being done by Pandit Maniram a century ago. 

Randomly generated Shloka from Guru Nanak from Page 144-145; shabad implies whatever is being done it is because of you. And exposition of Kartapurakh. 

ਜਾ ਤੁਧੁ ਭਾਵਹਿ ਤਾ ਕਰਹਿ ਬਿਭੂਤਾ ਸਿੰਙੀ ਨਾਦੁ ਵਜਾਵਹਿ ॥
ਜਾ ਤੁਧੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਤਾ ਪੜਹਿ ਕਤੇਬਾ ਮੁਲਾ ਸੇਖ ਕਹਾਵਹਿ ॥
ਜਾ ਤੁਧੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਤਾ ਹੋਵਹਿ ਰਾਜੇ ਰਸ ਕਸ ਬਹੁਤੁ ਕਮਾਵਹਿ ॥
ਜਾ ਤੁਧੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਤੇਗ ਵਗਾਵਹਿ ਸਿਰ ਮੁੰਡੀ ਕਟਿ ਜਾਵਹਿ ॥
ਜਾ ਤੁਧੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਜਾਹਿ ਦਿਸੰਤਰਿ ਸੁਣਿ ਗਲਾ ਘਰਿ ਆਵਹਿ ॥
ਜਾ ਤੁਧੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਨਾਇ ਰਚਾਵਹਿ ਤੁਧੁ ਭਾਣੇ ਤੂੰ ਭਾਵਹਿ ॥
ਨਾਨਕੁ ਏਕ ਕਹੈ ਬੇਨੰਤੀ ਹੋਰਿ ਸਗਲੇ ਕੂੜੁ ਕਮਾਵਹਿ ॥੧॥

Translation: 

Majh Guru Nanak

If you please one praises and sings

If you please one bathes in holy waters

If you please one rubs ashes on their body

If you please one  blows the sacred conch

If you please one reads the Quran and Bible

If you please one becomes a priest

If you please one becomes a king

If you please one enjoys the flavors of royalty

If you please ones' sword removes heads from bodies

If you please one roams the world and hears stories

If you please Name is constructed

If you please you are pleasing

Nanak says everything else is false

Using successive lines as antaras, like so:  

ਤੁਧੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਤਾ ਵਾਵਹਿ ਗਾਵਹਿ ਤੁਧੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਜਲਿ ਨਾਵਹਿ ॥

The following is an interesting line, and it comes towards the end. Perhaps Guru nanak is talking about himself: 

ਜਾ ਤੁਧੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਜਾਹਿ ਦਿਸੰਤਰਿ ਸੁਣਿ ਗਲਾ ਘਰਿ ਆਵਹਿ ॥

I wish the interviewer had let Pandit Maniram continue his Ragini lecture. That was going so well. But whatever is preserved is still wonderful: