Bhagat Trilochan
Maharashtrian Brahmin and contemporary of Namdev, who wrote on what a person carries into death.
Trilochan was a Brahmin saint of Maharashtra, a contemporary and friend of Namdev in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Little is known of his life beyond the tradition that he lived at Barsi near Sholapur and kept open house for holy men.
Four of his hymns are in the Guru Granth Sahib. The best known is a meditation on the last moment of life: whoever thinks of wealth at death is born a snake, whoever thinks of women a prostitute, whoever thinks of sons a pig, whoever thinks of mansions a ghost; only whoever dies thinking of God is freed.
Another hymn rebukes the ascetic who wanders the forests while his heart remains full of filth. Through Trilochan and Namdev, the Gurus' scripture keeps a thread back to the Marathi devotional tradition.
