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Far away is the Lord Supreme;

by Akha
(1600? - 1650?) Timeline

English version by
Krishnaditya
Yoga / Hindu : Advaita / Non-Dualist
17th Century

Far away is the Lord Supreme;
Mind does not have entree there.
A man without mind will travel far
To a place no mind, speech or body can reach.
Everybody sits and worships the vagaries of mind,
Akha, and they do not receive the light of God.

 

 

-- from Wings of the Soul: Poems of Akha: The Spiritual Poet of India, Translated by Krishnaditya

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