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Endless is my Wealth

Shankara, Shankara poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Advaita / Non-Dualist poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry by Shankara
(788 - 820) Timeline

English version by
W. S. Merwin & J. Moussaieff Mason
Yoga / Hindu : Advaita / Non-Dualist
9th Century

The sage
king Janaka
stands on a hill
watching his city in flames
"Endless is my wealth,"
he says
"I have nothing at all,
and thus when this city of Mithila crumbles,
red embers, white ashes
all monuments of men destroyed,
nothing of mine is burned."

"I have nothing at all,
and endless is my wealth."

 

 

 

Themes

  Fire
  King
  Mountain
 
 


Recommended Books


Ramana, Shankara and the Forty Verses: The Essential Teachings of Advaita, by Alan Jacobs
Saundarya Lahari of Sri Sankaracarya, by Shankara
Shankara and Indian Philosophy, by Natalia Isayeva
Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination, Translated by Swami Prabhavananda / Translated by Christopher Isherwood
Upadesa Sahasri: A Thousand Teachings, by Shankara / Translated by Swami Jagadananda

 

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