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Don't make me hear all day

Basava, Basava poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Shaivite (Shiva) poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry by Basava
(1134 - 1196) Timeline

English version by
A. K. Ramanujan

Original Language
Kannada
Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)
12th Century

Don't make me hear all day
     'Whose man, whose man, whose man is this?'

Let me hear, 'This man is mine, mine
     this man is mine.'

O lord of the meeting rivers,
     make me feel I'm a son
     of the house.

 

 

-- from Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan

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Recommended Books


Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan
The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice, by Georg Feuerstein

 

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