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The Rhythm of Remembrance
Poetic RenderingI placed my vow before You:my body is Yours,my mind is Yours,my wealth is Yours.O Lord, keep me truelet me not slip again into the old deceit.Again I vowed:the…
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Unmediated Love
Poetic RenderingCan you place your joy of love in another's hands?Can you let another taste your meal?Then how can you delegate the worship of your Linga the sacred vow that…
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The Language of the Heart
Poetic RenderingI know nothing of measure or melody,no rhythm flows from my untutored hands.I am unskilled in the scales of earth and sky,a stranger to the arts that others claim…
Posted inSharana - Bhakta BHAKTA
The Substance and the Shadow
Poetic RenderingA wife may wear silk,adorn herself with gold and ornamentsyet without her husband’s love,she is joyless, her life hollow.So too, one may smear vibhuti,string rudraksha beads,and display the signs…
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The Licking Tongue of Craving
Poetic RenderingAs a dog's tongue, again and again, returns to lick the ghee-pot,so my mind, O Lord, returns to the taste of the world.It will not leave this shoreless sea…
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The First Law of Freedom
Poetic RenderingBathe all you wish in the river like a fishO brothers, O elders, O learned onesstill I say: renounce! renounce!Renounce the touch that belongs to another,renounce the wealth that…
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The Sovereignty of Grace
Poetic RenderingWhether born to a servant or a courtesan,if they have received Shiva’s initiationand begun to walk the inner path,know them not by their birth,but honour them as bhaktas on…
Posted inAikya - Bhakta BHAKTA
The Sacred Inversion
Poetic RenderingLet them not call me corrupt or impure, O Lord.Let them call me one intoxicated with the Linga,mad with love for the Jangama.Let them not accuse me of crafting…
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The Fidelity of Transformation
Poetic RenderingThere is but Onethough the world calls Him by a thousand names.As a devoted wife clings to her single beloved,so must the heart cling to the One Divine.If she…
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Geography of the Soul
Poetic RenderingHeaven and Hell are not distant realms see clearly!To speak truth is to dwell in Heaven.To speak falsehood is to be bound to Hell.Righteous conduct is paradise itself;unrighteousness is…