ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>TRILOCHAN</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="TRILOCHAN"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279TRILOCHAN, one of the three Mah&#257r&#257sh&#7789rian saint-poets whose compositions are included in the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib, the other two being N&#257mdev and Parm&#257nand. Trilochan is said to have been born in AD 1267 of a Vai&#347ya family. There is no unanimity among scholars regarding the place of his birth. Some say that he was born in the village of B&#257rs&#299 in present-day Shol&#257pur district of Mah&#257r&#257sh&#7789ra, others that he was born and brought up in Uttar Pradesh but came to Mah&#257r&#257sh&#7789ra where he spent most of his life. Besides being an ardent Vai&#7779&#7751avite, Trilochan (lit. the three-eyed, that is one who can see the past, present and future all at once) was a learned scholar well versed in the Pur&#257&#7751ic lore and Indian philosophical thought. Among the <i>&#347lokas</i> of Bhakta Kab&#299r, incorporated in the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib are interposed two (212 and 213) which purport to represent a dialogue between Trilochan and N&#257mdev. In the first <i>&#347loka</i> Trilochan, addressing N&#257mdev, who was commonly seen occupied with the printing of cotton sheets, which was his profession, derided him for being too much attached to the world. N&#257mdev in the second <i>&#347loka</i> gently tells Trilochan that true <i>bhakti</i> lay in lovingly repeating the Lord's Name while doing one's work with one's hands and feet.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Four hymns of Trilochan are included in the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib, one each in Sir&#299 R&#257ga and Dhan&#257sar&#299 R&#257ga, and two in G&#363jar&#299 R&#257ga. The theme of the hymn in the Sir&#299 R&#257ga (GG. 92) turns upon God, man, devotion, death and the final release (<i>mok&#7779a</i>). God is all-pervading, present in every place, and knows everything; man, oblivious of death, remains engrossed in love of family, the neighbour's possessions, pleasures and mammon and comes to grief. Of Trilochan's two hymns in R&#257ga G&#363jar&#299, the first, in order to stress the superiority of a pure heart and devotion to God, questions seriously the validity of all mendicant garbs, ritualistic observances, and ascetical practices. The second hymn in R&#257ga G&#363jar&#299 centres upon the psyche of man and transmigration. Trilochan in consonance with the Indian religious conception says that the last thoughts of the dying man, the result of the passion and desires which ruled his life, determine his future birth. A dying man absorbed in the thought of wealth will be born a serpent, a man absorbed in the thought of woman will be born <i>sans</i> morals. Trilochan's hymn in R&#257ga Dhan&#257sari (GG, 695) abounding in allusions to the Indian Pur&#257&#7751ic literature and mythology puts forth the view that one's own acts are exonerable only through the remembrance of God's Name. In this hymn, as in the hymns of N&#257mdev, the use of <i>che</i> has been made in relational cases, e.g. "...<i>t&#257 che mohi j&#257p&#299ale r&#257m che n&#257ma&#7749," "bisv k&#257 d&#299paku sv&#257m&#299 t&#257 che re su&#257rath&#299 pa&#7749kh&#299 r&#257i garu&#7771 t&#257 che b&#257dhav&#257"</i>, etc.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"><i>&#346abad&#257rth Sr&#299 Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib</i>. Amritsar, 1959<BR> <li class="C1"> Gurdit Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Itih&#257s Sr&#299 Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib (Bhagat B&#257&#7751&#299 Bh&#257g)</i> Chandigarh, 1990<BR> <li class="C1"> S&#257hib Si&#7749gh, <i>Bhagat B&#257&#7751&#299 Sa&#7789&#299k</i>. Amritsar, 1959-60<BR> <li class="C1"> Chaturved&#299, Parsh&#363 R&#257m, <i>Uttar&#299 Bh&#257rat k&#299 Sant Prampar&#257</i>. Allahabad, 1964<BR> <li class="C1"> Macauliffe, Max Arthur, <i>The Sikh Religion : Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors</i>. Oxford, 1909<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">T&#257ran Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>