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Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)

12th Century

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English version by
A. K. Ramanujan

Original Language
Kannada

Till you've earned

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	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

Till you've earned
knowledge of good and evil

     it is
     lust's body,
     site of rage,
     ambush of greed,
     house of passion,
     fence of pride,
     mask of envy.

Till you know and lose this knowing
you've no way
of knowing
my lord white as jasmine.

-- from Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan

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