Goraji Kumhar was the eldest among the saints of Shri Gyaneshwar’s time. He was born in Terdoki place in Samvat 1324. Everyone used to call him ‘Chacha’. He was a very detached, determined and knowledgeable devotee. He had two wives. He was so engrossed in devotional bliss that once his little child died after being crushed under his feet during his mad dance, but he did not remember it at all. Annoyed by this, his wife Santi told him that from now onwards he should not touch her. Since then he stopped touching her forever. Santi felt very remorseful and was very worried about how she would have a son now and how her lineage would continue. Therefore, she got him married to her sister Rami. On the occasion of marriage, his father-in-law advised him to treat both the sisters equally. So, he decided not to touch even the newly married woman. One night both the sisters held his hands and kept them on their body. He cut off both his hands considering them sinful. Many such things are famous about him. While returning from his pilgrimages to Kashi etc., saints like Shri Gyaneshwar and Namdev stayed at his place. All the saints were sitting together. A potter’s thap was lying nearby. Muktabai’s eyes fell on it, she asked, ‘Uncle! What is this?’ Goraji replied, ‘This is a thap, by hitting the earthen pots with it, it is seen which pot is raw and which is baked.’ Muktabai said, ‘We humans are also pots, can this also tell whether we are raw or baked?’ Goraji said, ‘Yes, yes, why not.’ Saying this, he picked up the thap and started hitting each saint on their head to see. The saints started watching this wonder, but Namdev got angry. He felt this to be an insult to the saints as well as himself. When Goraji came to him patting him, he felt very bad. Goraji patted him on the head and said, ‘Among the saints, this pot is the most unbaked pot’ and said to Namdev, ‘Namdev! You are a devotee, but your ego has not gone yet; till you do not take refuge in the Guru, you will remain unbaked like this.’ Namdev felt very sad. When he returned to Pandharpur, he expressed his sorrow to Shri Vitthal. God said to him, ‘What Goraji says is true that till you do not take refuge in Shri Guru, you will remain unbaked. We are always with you; but you will have to accept a human being as your Guru and bow down before him, you will have to dissolve your ego at his feet.’ As per the order of God, Namdev accepted Shri Visoba Khechar as his Guru and took the teachings of the Guru. So be it. Thus Goraji the potter was very experienced, knowledgeable, devotee and saint. In his Abhangas, the technical terms of Vedanta have been used in abundance and there are also indications of the experience of Anahat sound, ‘seventeenth ka udak’, ‘Khechari mudra’ etc.