A Prayer for the Welfare of All: 700-year-old Marathi Hindu Composition

Experience peace, reassurance, and contentment by listening to ‘Pasaydan,’ a sublime prayer for the upliftment and benefit of all people. Pasaydan is a 700-year-old composition by Saint Dnyaneshwar, who believed that “The whole world has one soul.” Pasaydan is a Marathi word meaning “a gift of divine grace.” The prayer asks for righteousness, compassion, harmony, world peace, and brotherhood at the personal, family, town, country, and entire universal level. The Pasaydan hymn is the last nine verses of Dnyaneshwari which interpret the Bhagavad Gita in the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism. Dnyaneshwari is considered the greatest masterpiece in Marathi literature. It is a major text of Bhagavat Dharma – Varkari tradition. The saint poets such as Namdeo, Eknath, and Tukaram are the prominent saints of the Varkari tradition. The philosophical depth of Dnyaneshwari has been praised for its aesthetic as well as scholarly value.