श्याम! पिया मोरी रंग दे चुनरिया. लाल न रंगाऊँ मैं हरी न रंगाऊँ, आपने ही रंग में रंग दे चुनरिया. This is a line from the bhajan of great devotee poet Mira bai where she argues to her beloved God to paint her clothes dark and not with any other colour such as red or green which obviously are the first choice of the young hearts.If you try to understand the massage weaved in this otherwise simple line which shows the sultry way of expressing love by a lady towards her beloved husband, you will get to know the key to all kinds of humanity which the whole world is now a days craving for.
Feel the first line, the word "श्याम" has been used as both Noun and Adjective."श्याम" is name of Lord and her husband, again it is the colour which Meera wants her clothes(चुनरिया) to be paint with. Here clothe symbolizes the worldly desires and luxuries and the name श्याम is not only the name but the symbol of the philosophy and thought as well, of the husband. Hence, by the means of this line a devotee is praying to his God or a wife is saying to her husband, in full surrender and in full assertion of her possessive love, that do get my clothing dyed and it must be coloured in your colour.More explicitly she says that from now onwards, may all my desires reflect you and your thoughts, all my thoughts be pervaded by your presence, do get all my belongings of your choice.
Feel the second line, here after asserting her love and surrendering her desires the wife and devotee wants to make her point more clear that please don't get it died in any other attractive colours('लाल' that is 'red','हरी' that is 'green') but only in the colour of yours. By this line the devotee is trying to convince the God that it's not that She is not aware of the other colours and their charm as well but yet wants to get her clothes to be dyed in his colour that is 'श्याम' (black).
Let us dive deep into the meaning of this line. The great devotee Meera bai was of opinion that the goal of all the souls in this world is to meet its beloved God and only a womanly soul can enchant the God who is one and only perfect man in the universe. [Obvious manifestation of this creed of Meera Bai comes into light when after denial of permission by chief priest, citing her sex, to visit the Krishna Temple in Mathura she satirically replied "I thought there lives only one man" and got the permission to visit the temple.] Therefore while singing the bhajan she portrayed herself as the wife of lord Krishna. Again she opts the colour 'श्याम' as complexion of her dear God because in her opinion it is the colour of tender-valor, the prime features required for an adorable man.[We know the colour Red represents the valour and the colour Green represents the ternderness and if you mix the two you will a get a colour 'श्याम']
Furthermore by saying 'लाल न रंगाऊँ मैं हरी न रंगाऊँ', she wants to convey that neither she wants to be brave only nor she wants to be tender only she wants to be a lovable blend of both the valor and the tender that is she wants to be 'श्याम', same as her beloved God (आपने ही रंग में रंग दे चुनरिया).
Moreover the colour 'श्याम' is the colour of the land which shows the incomparable tolerance and fertility so by arguing to get her clothes dyed 'श्याम' Meera Bai is praying to God to make her as tolerant and fertile as the Earth is.
Now if you think of the results of such prayers if made by each and every human being, you will find the enchanting beauty of sustainable existence of all the creeds and practices pervaded all over the world flowing joyfully to the nectar of universe in such a romantic rhythm that will left not a single particle to lay in ignorance.
Don't think that the above philosophy is applicable to the macro world only, it is applicable to the micro that is to you as well. You are feeling the heat of all pervading selfishness and resulting contrast or ugliness of the world and conclude that you can't survive.
The first step towards the remedy is that stop thinking of survival and start contemplating of how to produce because in the whole world nature is manifesting the power of construction so it is easy to be the part of the all pervading process but for this you have to shun the lust for worldly desires, mind it "shun the lust for desires and not the crave for passion", because lust generates the fear of failure and it promotes the parasitism, root cause of all the ugliness of the world. The second step is to think brave and act tenderly. It will generate in you the confidence in the beauty of the world. Further this confidence will get the reflection into yourself which in turn make all your energy to flow in rhythm to the particularly destined feat of your life and hence to the nectar of the universe.
Remember from micro to macro the source of all the wonderful manifestation is same. So find out the source of joy in easily palpable macro world and apply it to the micro world and reinvent yourself as the part of eternal journey to the nectar of universe.
Let us dive deep into the meaning of this line. The great devotee Meera bai was of opinion that the goal of all the souls in this world is to meet its beloved God and only a womanly soul can enchant the God who is one and only perfect man in the universe. [Obvious manifestation of this creed of Meera Bai comes into light when after denial of permission by chief priest, citing her sex, to visit the Krishna Temple in Mathura she satirically replied "I thought there lives only one man" and got the permission to visit the temple.] Therefore while singing the bhajan she portrayed herself as the wife of lord Krishna. Again she opts the colour 'श्याम' as complexion of her dear God because in her opinion it is the colour of tender-valor, the prime features required for an adorable man.[We know the colour Red represents the valour and the colour Green represents the ternderness and if you mix the two you will a get a colour 'श्याम']Furthermore by saying 'लाल न रंगाऊँ मैं हरी न रंगाऊँ', she wants to convey that neither she wants to be brave only nor she wants to be tender only she wants to be a lovable blend of both the valor and the tender that is she wants to be 'श्याम', same as her beloved God (आपने ही रंग में रंग दे चुनरिया).
Moreover the colour 'श्याम' is the colour of the land which shows the incomparable tolerance and fertility so by arguing to get her clothes dyed 'श्याम' Meera Bai is praying to God to make her as tolerant and fertile as the Earth is.
Now if you think of the results of such prayers if made by each and every human being, you will find the enchanting beauty of sustainable existence of all the creeds and practices pervaded all over the world flowing joyfully to the nectar of universe in such a romantic rhythm that will left not a single particle to lay in ignorance.
Don't think that the above philosophy is applicable to the macro world only, it is applicable to the micro that is to you as well. You are feeling the heat of all pervading selfishness and resulting contrast or ugliness of the world and conclude that you can't survive.
The first step towards the remedy is that stop thinking of survival and start contemplating of how to produce because in the whole world nature is manifesting the power of construction so it is easy to be the part of the all pervading process but for this you have to shun the lust for worldly desires, mind it "shun the lust for desires and not the crave for passion", because lust generates the fear of failure and it promotes the parasitism, root cause of all the ugliness of the world. The second step is to think brave and act tenderly. It will generate in you the confidence in the beauty of the world. Further this confidence will get the reflection into yourself which in turn make all your energy to flow in rhythm to the particularly destined feat of your life and hence to the nectar of the universe.Remember from micro to macro the source of all the wonderful manifestation is same. So find out the source of joy in easily palpable macro world and apply it to the micro world and reinvent yourself as the part of eternal journey to the nectar of universe.
