Who said this Well, bridegroom! where are you going dressed so beautifully like

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Who said this " Well, bridegroom! where are you going dressed so

beautifully like this? " : To whom and why?

 

Haridasas, while performing the Kirtan, wear a gala and full dress.

They put on a head-dress, either a pheta or a turban, a long flowing

coat with a shirt inside, an uparane (short dhotar) on the shoulders

and the usual long dhotar from the waist below. Dressed in this

fashion for some Kirtan in the Shirdi village, Dasganu once went to

bow to Baba. Baba asked him - " Well, bridegroom! where are you going

dressed so beautifully like this? " 'For performing a Kirtan' was the

reply. Then Baba said - " Why do you want all this paraphemalia-coat,

uparani and pheta etc, doff all that before Me, why wear them on the

body? " Dasganu immediately took them off and placed them at the

Baba's Feet. From that time Dasganu never wore these things while

performing the Kirtan. He was always bare from waist upwards, a pair

of `chiplis' was in his hand and a garland round his neck. This is

not in consonance with the practice generally followed by all the

Hardidasa, but this is the best and the purest method. The sage

Narada, from whom the Kirtan-Paddhati originated, wore nothing on his

trunk and head. He carried a 'veena' in his hand, and wandered from

place to place everywhere singing the glory of the Lord.