A real life incident involving Visobakhecher and Namdev
teaches us that God is in all animate and inanimate. Sant Namdev was one of
the pillars of the Bhakti cult that developed around the worship of Bhagwan
Vitthal of Pandharpur in Maharashtra during
the middle ages. Sant Namdev was also a companion of Sant Dnyaneshwar.
Sant Namdev used to visit the Bhagwan Vitthal
Temple
Namdev used to converse with Bhagwan Vitthal daily and he complained
to the Lord about other people making fun of him for his attachment.
Bhagwan Vitthal then asked Namdev to go to Visobakhecher who
lived in a nearby village and receive spiritual teachings. Namdev was not ready
to leave as it meant he will not be able to visit the temple for two or three
days. Bhagwan Vitthal convinced him to meet Visobakhecher.
Namdev reached the village of Visobakhecher
An angry Namdev woke up the old man and asked him to remove
his legs from Mahadev Shiva.
Visobakhecher then asked Namdev to keep his leg where Bhagwan is not.
Namdev angrily pull out the leg of Visobakhecher and placed
it in the opposite direction but he was surprised to see a Shivling there. He
then moved the leg to a third direction but there too there was a Shivling.
Namdev soon discovered that the there was a Shivling in
every inch of space in the temple.
With no place to keep the feet of Visobakhecher; Namdev put
the feet of the holy man on his head.
The moment the feet touched the head of Namdev, he was
illumined about the all pervading nature of the Supreme Truth.
Tears trickled from the eyes of Namdev and he thanked
Visobakhecher and Lord Vitthal.
This real life incident teaches us that any form of
attachment is ignorance.