Poetic RenderingLet your word be firm as stone.Let your living mirror your speech.For one whose tongue casts nets of deceittheir words unravel, their being weakens,and such a person finds no…

Poetic RenderingIf a wicked man were to offer youa whole country and all its lands,do not accept even the shade of his doorway.But if a true Shiva-bhakta such as Madara…

Poetic RenderingNo company with half-hearted devotees,no sharing of road or word with them.For I have found my placein the pure union with the sharanasof Koodalasangama. This vachana establishes a critical…

Poetic RenderingAcross this wide earth, the marketplace hums without restbuying and selling, desire and profit weaving its endless noise.But above every bargain and beneath every gainsits the Supreme Merchant, Mahadeva-Setti,whose…

Poetic RenderingLet me never bow in fear before another,nor pour out praise where understanding is absent.Let my mind not wander toward another’s desire,nor let the company of the faithless cling…