Dasimayya : Whatever it was

The 10th C. CE Hindu poet-saint Devara Dasimayya was devoted to Siva, and one of the names for Siva is ‘Rama’s master’ or ‘Ramanatha.’ For more about Dasimayya, see this post.

Whatever It was

that made this earth
the base,
the world its life,
the wind its pillar,
arranged the lotus and the moon,
and covered it all with folds
of sky

with Itself inside,

to that Mystery
indifferent to differences,

to It I pray,
O Ramanatha.

Translation A. K. Ramanujan


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