Janabai: You must accept those who surrender to you

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You must accept those who surrender to you

by Janabai
(1298 - 1350?) Timeline

English version by
Sarah Sellergren

Original Language
Marathi

Yoga / Hindu : Vaishnava (Krishna/Rama)

14th Century

If the Ganga flows to the ocean
and the ocean turns her away,
tell me, O Vitthal,
who would hear her complaint?

Can the river reject its fish?
Can the mother spurn her child?

Jan says,
Lord,
you must accept those
who surrender to you.

-- from Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion, Edited by Anne Feldhaus

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Themes

Sound

Water

Womb

Recommended Books

	Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion, Edited by Anne Feldhaus
	Women Saints in World Religions, Edited by Arvind Sharma
	Women Writing in India: 600 BC to the Present: Volume 1, Edited by Susie Tharu / Edited by K. Lalita

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