Poetic RenderingSilence is not the highest vow, O Lordafter offering to the Linga,with each morsel of food, whisper  “Shiva Sharana!”For it is not fasting, nor silence,that brings You nearbut remembrance…

Poetic RenderingLet my tongue speak only wordsshaped by Your Vachanas, filled with truth.Let my eyes behold nothingbut Your all-pervading form.Let my heart hold no memorythat is not fragrant with Your…

Poetic RenderingThe devotion of those who cling to scriptures and rituals alonetheir offering is like a shard of baked clayburied in the soil.How can such a seed take root?How can…

Poetic RenderingA pot and a polished mirrorboth shaped from the same metal:one feeds the body,the other reveals the face.So too, seeker and Sharanashare the same human frame:one wanders in forgetting,the…

Poetic RenderingThe wealthy build temples of stone,I, a humble soul, what can I offer?My legs, the pillars; my body, the shrine;My head, the golden dome.Hear me, O Koodalasangamadeva:Stone temples crumble,but…

Poetic RenderingYour remembrance is my sunrise,Your forgetting my falling dusk.Your memory is my very life,Your memory my breath itself, O Father.Press Your sacred footprintdeep into the chamber of my heart;and…