in his songs. Much of the imagery used in his songs is similar to that used by Kabir, and similar also to that used by the earlier Sahajiya Buddhists and Nath yogis. Dadu's compositions were recorded by his disciple Rajjab and are known as the Dadu Anubhav Vaani, a compilation of 5,000 verses. His songs are in a Hindi dialect known as Braj Bhasa, being a mixture of Hindi and Rajasthani. Janagopal another disciple of Dadu Dayal wrote the earliest biography of Dadu.Translations of Dadu bhajans are quite rare in English. Let me give an English translation of two of the verses of Sant Dadu Dayal titled 'The Vision of the Beloved' and 'An Outer Guru That Is Not An Inner Guru, Not A Qualified Teacher'
from V Sundaram: Clattery MacHinery on Poetry: A Great Sant from Gujarat and Rajasthan (with rare translations of Dadu bhajans)
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