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The Temple and the Body

Basava, Basava poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Shaivite (Shiva) poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry by Basava
(1134 - 1196) Timeline

English version by
A. K. Ramanujan

Original Language
Kannada
Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)
12th Century

The rich
will make temples for Siva.
What shall I,
a poor man,
do?

My legs are pillars,
the body the shrine,
the head a cupola
of gold.

Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.

 

 

-- from Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan

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Recommended Books


Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan
The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice, by Georg Feuerstein

 

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