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Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)
12th Century

About Akka Mahadevi

Timeline (12th Century)

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English version by
A. K. Ramanujan

Original Language
Kannada
People, male and female,

 
 
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Sacred Voices: Essential Women's Voices Through the Ages, Edited by Mary Ford-Grabowsky
The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone
Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan
Women Writing in India: 600 BC to the Present: Volume 1, Edited by Susie Tharu / Edited by K. Lalita

People,
male and female,
blush when a cloth covering their shame
comes loose
               When the lord of lives
lives drowned without a face
in the world, how can you be modest?

When all the world is the eye of the lord,
onlooking everywhere, what can you
cover and conceal?

 

 

-- from Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan

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