Basava: Make of my body the beam of a lute

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Make of my body the beam of a lute

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

Make of my body the beam of a lute
     of my head the sounding gourd
     of my nerves the strings
     of my fingers the plucking rods.

Clutch me close
     and play your thirty-two songs
     O lord of the meeting rivers!

-- from Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan

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Themes

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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