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The Divine Exile
Poetic RenderingDo not make me two, O Lordthis body as anga and You as Linga apart.Hold me whole, undivided in Your truth.Place in my hand a single blade of sacred…
The Song of the One Without a Second
Poetic RenderingOne earth the altar for all temples,for no place stands holier than the ground beneath your feet.One water that cleanses all,for purity flows not from the river, but from…
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The Indwelling Mountain
Poetic RenderingCan the majesty of Merucome to rest upon a crow’s wing?Can the touch that turns metals to golddwell in a piece of common iron?Can the virtues of the saintlyshine…
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The Sacred Trinity That Purifies All
Poetic RenderingWhere the Linga is present, can caste exist?Where the Jangama dwells, can clan remain?Where Prasada is shared, can impurity abide?Only the pollution of false speech defiles.O Koodalasangama, for Your…
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The Alchemy of Surrender
Poetic RenderingLike camphor that burns itself away,leaving neither smoke nor shadowlike nectar infused with that subtle,unlocatable current of lifesoftly threading every bodywithout announcing its presencelike the divine lionsavoring the sweetnessof…
The All Consuming Radiance
Poetic RenderingWherever I turn my eyes,Your radiance meets me first.In joy, in sorrow,in the quiet chambers of thoughtonly You shine.How can darkness standbefore the face of the sun?So too, when…
The Cosmic Body of God
Poetic RenderingWherever I turn,only You shine before me.Eyes of every creature are Your eyes,faces in all directions are Your face.The hands that hold the world,the feet that steady the earthall…
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God’s Flute
Poetic RenderingLord, make my body Your flute.Let my head become Your single-stringed bow,my nerves the stretched and trembling strings,my fingers the living plectrum in Your hand.Play upon me, Lord,as the…