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What could be the Other when First is naught?

by Akha
(1600? - 1650?) Timeline

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

What could be the Other when First is naught?
What is to dwell when nothing is born?
Viewers none, who can bear witness?
Untouched by tongue, taste the nectar blessed.
Akha, you will understand if you view this sensibly,
It's the possessed who grieve for father's father.

 

 

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

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Themes

  Birth, Rebirth
  Honey
  Wine
  Womb
 


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

 

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