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Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)
12th Century

About Basava

Timeline (1134 - 1196)

 Basava, Basava poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Shaivite (Shiva) poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

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English version by
A. K. Ramanujan

Original Language
Kannada
Feet will dance,

Themes
  Heart
  Sound
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

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

Feet will dance,
eyes will see,
tongue will sing,
and not find content.
What else, what else
shall I do?

I worship with my hands,
the heart is not content.
What else shall I do?

     Listen, my lord,
     it isn't enough.
     I have it in me
     to cleave thy belly
     and enter thee

O lord of the meeting rivers!

 

 

-- from Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan

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