Pattinattar: The eightfold Yoga

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The eightfold Yoga

by Pattinattar
(10th Century) Timeline

English version by
Kamil V. Zvelebil

Original Language
Tamil

Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)

10th Century

The eightfold Yoga
the six regions of the body
the five states
they have all left and gone
totally erased
and in the open
Void
I am left
amazed.
     There is but a red rounded Moon
     A fountain of white milk
     for delight
     The unobtainable Bliss
     has engulfed me
     A precipice
     of light.

-- from The Poets of the Powers: Freedom, Magic, and Renewal, Translated by Kamil V. Zvelebil

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Themes

Bliss

Moon

Water

Womb

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	The Poets of the Powers: Freedom, Magic, and Renewal, Translated by Kamil V. Zvelebil

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