Basava: This thing called bhakti

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This thing called bhakti

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 you take on
this thing called bhakti:

     like a saw
     it cuts when it goes

     and it cuts again
     when it comes.

If you risk your hand
with a cobra in a pitcher
will it let you
pass?

-- 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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