Allama Prabhu: If it rains fire

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If it rains fire

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by Allama Prabhu
(12th Century) Timeline

English version by
A. K. Ramanujan

Original Language
Kannada

Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)

12th Century

If it rains fire
     you have to be as the water;

if it is a deluge of water
     you have to be as the wind;

if it is the Great Flood,
     you have to be as the sky;

and if it is the Very Last Flood of all the worlds,
     you have to give up self

and become the Lord.

-- from Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan

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Themes

Fire

Sky

Water

Recommended Books

	Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan

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