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If You are a mountain

Ravidas, Ravidas poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry,  poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Sikh poetry by Ravidas
(1398? - 1448?) Timeline

English version by
Nirmal Dass

Yoga / Hindu
Sikh
15th Century

If You are a mountain,
then I am a peacock.
If You are the moon,
then I am a partridge.

O Madho, if You break from me,
then I shall break with You.
And if I break from You,
to whom shall I then go?

If You are the lamp,
then I am the wick.
If You are the shrine,
then I am the pilgrim.

My love for You
is true and real.
When I fell in love with You,
I gave up my love for others.

Wherever I go,
there I seek to serve You.
No other god
can be a Master like You.

By praising You,
I cut Yama's noose.
Yearning for love
Ravi Dass loudly sings.

 

 

-- from Songs of the Saints from the Adi Granth, Translated by Nirmal Dass

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Themes

  Birds
  Lover and Beloved
  Moon
  Mountain
 


Recommended Books


Guru Ravidas: Life and Teachings (Mystics of the East series) , by K. N. Upadhyaya
Songs of the Saints from the Adi Granth, Translated by Nirmal Dass
Songs of the Saints of India, Translated by John Stratton Hawley / Translated by Mark Juergensmeyer
Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Translated by Gurbachan S. Talib
Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Translated by Winand M. Callewaert

 

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