Manikkavacakar: While unperishing love melted my bones

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While unperishing love melted my bones

by Manikkavacakar
(9th Century) Timeline

English version by
G. E. Yocum

Original Language
Tamil

Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)

9th Century

While unperishing love melted my bones,
     I cried
I shouted again and again,
     louder than the waves of the
     billowing sea,
I became confused,
     I fell,
     I rolled,
     I wailed,
Bewildered like a madman,
Intoxicated like a crazy drunk,
     so that people were puzzled
     and those who heard wondered.
Wild as a rutting elephant which cannot
     be mounted,
     I could not contain myself.

-- from The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice, by Georg Feuerstein

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Themes

Lover and Beloved

Sound

Trembling

Water

Wine

Recommended Books

	The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice, by Georg Feuerstein

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