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Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)
12th Century

 

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English version by
A. K. Ramanujan

Original Language
Kannada
This thing called bhakti

 
 
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

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

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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