Basava: Feet will dance

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Feet will dance

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

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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Themes

Heart

Sound

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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