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Vacana: Pure will

Sunday, January 8, 2006

Allay all passion, stop all sluggishness,
Blow up the mountain of your pride,
Burn, sheaf by sheaf, your swollen stack of words;
If still your body is consumed in sin,
If still your life is weltering in the world,
How can you hope Guhesvaralinga will think
Your will is pure?

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Vacana: Relations - 2

Thursday, January 5, 2006

Allama, 775
For the flowing river, legs are the body
for the burning fire, tongue is the body
for the gusty wind, hands are the body
Guhesvara, for your sarana, all the limbs are linga.

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Vacana: The way We are

Wednesday, January 4, 2006

Basavanna, 101:
When a whore with a child
takes on a customer for money. [...]

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Vacana: World that is a carcass!

Tuesday, December 6, 2005

Look how they wrangle, the dogs
Come to feast on
This carcass of a world!
And as the dogs wrangle, look
How the carcass laughs!
For you see, Sir, the Guhesvara Himself
Is not there.
A vacana by Allama Prabhu

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Vacana: Relation

Sunday, December 4, 2005

Like the fire inside the stone,
reflection in water,
tree inside the seed,
silence inside the sound,
Guhesvara, is your sarana relation.
Allama Prabhu, vacana number 1

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Vacana: State of the world!

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

For a wedding of dwarfs
rascals beat the drums
and whores
carry on their heads
holy pitchers;
with hey-ho’s and loud hurrahs
they crowd the wedding party
and quarrel over flowers and betelnuts;
all three worlds are at the party;
what a rumpus this is,
without our Lord of Caves.
Allama Prabhu, Vacana number 461, translated by A K Ramanujan.
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