पाँच सेर भजन !

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लगभग तीस वर्ष पहलेकी बात है। एक गाँव में एक बूढ़ा रहता था। उसकी पत्नी भी बूढ़ी हो गयी थी। दोनोंका स्वभाव बड़ा सरल था। पढ़े-लिखे वे बिलकुल नहीं थे। उन्हें गिनती केवल बीस या तीसतक ही आती थी। वे दोनों जब भजन करने बैठते, तब एक-एक सेर गेहूँ या चना तौलकर अपने-अपने सामने रख लेते। ‘कृष्ण-कृष्ण’ कहते जाते तथा एक-एक दानाको अलग करते जाते। जब सम्पूर्ण दानोंको अलग कर लेते, तब समझते कि एक सेर भजन हुआ। इसी प्रकार कभी दो सेर, कभी तीन सेर भजन करते। इस प्रकार उनके भजनकी गिनती विचित्र ही थी।

एक बार जाड़ेकी रात थी। वे बड़े जोरसे रोने लगे- ‘अरे! मेरे कन्हैयाको जाड़ा लग रहा है रे !’ फिर अपनी रजाई उठायी और जाकर गाँवके बाहर फेंक आये। लोगोंने तो समझा कि बूढ़ा पागल हो गया है। पर उन्हें तो सचमुच दर्शन हुआ था और भगवान्ने कहा था- ‘दादा! मुझे जाड़ा लग रहा है।’ अपनी जानमें उन्हें यह दीख रहा था कि ‘यह बात कहकर कन्हैया गाँवके बाहर चला जा रहा है, उसे गाय चराने जाना है; वे उसके पीछे गये हैं और जाकरअपनी रजाई ओढ़ा दी है। ‘

उन्हींके सम्बन्धमें दूसरी घटना एक और है-उसी गाँवमें एक बड़ा भयङ्कर भैंसा रहता था। उससे प्रायः सभी लोग डरते थे। जिधर जाता, बच्चे तो भाग ही जाते, जवानोंके प्राण भी सूख जाते। एक दिन वे बूढ़े बाबा कहींसे आ रहे थे। भैंसा उस ओर ही लपका। लोगोंने समझा कि आज बूढ़ेका प्राण गया। भाला लेकर | लोग दौड़े अवश्य; पर उससे पहले ही भैंसा बूढ़ेके पास आ चुका था। इतनेमें दीखा- ‘न जाने कैसे, भैंसा दूसरी ओर मुड़कर भागा।’ लोग चकित रह गये। लोगोंने बूढ़ेसे पूछा बूढ़ेने बताया- ‘ -‘तुमलोगोंको दीखा नहीं अरे कृष्ण कहो ! मेरा कन्हैया बड़ा खिलाड़ी है। वह आया, बोला—‘दादा! मैं आ गया हूँ’ और यह कहकर उसने भैँसेकी पूँछ मरोड़ दी। फिर तो वह भैंसा भागा।’ लोगोंने तो यह स्पष्ट देखा था कि ठीक उसकी पूँछ ऐसी टेढ़ी हो गयी थी कि जैसे किसीने सचमुच मरोड़ दी हो, पर उसके अतिरिक्त और कुछ भी किसीको नहीं दीखा।

दोनों ही स्त्री-पुरुष निरन्तर भजन करते थे। कभी सेर, कभी दो सेर, कभी पाँच सेरतक ।

It was about thirty years back. An old man lived in a village. His wife had also become old. The nature of both was very simple. He was not educated at all. He could only count to twenty or thirty. When both of them used to sit for bhajan, then each would weigh a sher of wheat or gram and keep it in front of each other. They kept saying ‘Krishna-Krishna’ and kept separating each and every grain. When they would have separated all the donations, then they would have thought that one lion was worshipped. Similarly, sometimes two seers, sometimes three seers used to do bhajan. Thus the count of his hymns was strange.
Once it was a cold night. They started crying loudly – ‘ Hey! My Kanhaiya is feeling cold! Then picked up his quilt and went and threw it outside the village. People thought that the old man had gone mad. But he really had a vision and God had said – ‘Dada! I feel cold.’ In his life, he was seeing that ‘Kanhaiya is going outside the village after saying this, he has to go to graze the cow; They have followed him and covered themselves with their quilts. ,
The second incident in relation to him is another-a big fierce buffalo used to live in the same village. Almost everyone was afraid of him. Wherever he went, the children would have run away, the lives of the soldiers would have dried up. One day that old Baba was coming from somewhere. The buffalo jumped on that side only. People thought that the old man died today. carrying a spear People must run; But before that the buffalo had already come to the old man. In the meanwhile, it was seen- ‘Don’t know how, the buffalo turned and ran in the other direction.’ People were amazed. People asked the old man, the old man told – ‘ – ‘You have not seen it, say Krishna! My Kanhaiya is a big player. He came, said – ‘ Grandfather! I have come’ and saying this he twisted the buffalo’s tail. Then the buffalo ran away. People had clearly seen that his tail had become so crooked as if someone had really twisted it, but apart from that, no one saw anything else.
Both men and women used to do bhajan continuously. Sometimes a seer, sometimes two seers, sometimes up to five seers.

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