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Your present manifestation,

And your manifold nature

are really difficult to understand !

The knowledge about your caste and creed

You do not reveal to anybody.                                                 ….62

Some say you are a Muslim,

Some say you are Brahmin.

Thus like Krushana,

You too, are inscrutable!                                                         ….63

Having observed SHREE KRUSHNA,

Different people called him by various names.

Some call him 'YADU BUSHAN'

Some call him a cowherd.                                                                                  ….64

YASHODA²³called him a darling

KANSA ²⁴called him the great evil.

UDDHAV ²⁵called him beloved,

ARJUN called him Omniscient.                                                 ….65

23. Shrikrishna's foster mother. 24. Krishna's uncle.25. krishna's devotee.

Thus oh GURUVARA ,To you

According to each person's conclusion

Based on his mental attitude,

Names are give ,by them.                                                       ….66

The masjid being your dewelling,

And your ears not being pierced.

Nothing your offering the 'FATEHA'

To call you a Muslim is logical.²⁶                                             ….67

26. The above concusion of Das Ganu is not based on facts.

In the thirteenth verse of seventh Canto of Shri Sai - Charitra,

Hemadpant says:- "His ears were piecred, so how can be called a Yavana?

Cirumcision he approved, so how can he be called a Hindu?

"He is he ither Hindu nor Muslim,

Sai is the holy incarnation.

Sai is the holy incarnation."

The late Swami Sai- Sharn - Anand has rendered this work of Das Ganu into Gujrati In the foonate to his translation of the sixty - seveth verse ther of , he observs,

"Das Ganu does not appear to have observed Baba's ears carefully.

As per the translator's own knowledge and observations.

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