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Like a torch spreading its rays to brighten surrounding objects
Kalyana is a gigantic torch, Sharana's devotion is its oil,
Their characters and good deeds make the wick for this torch,
Basavanna lighted this torch,
In the splendour of that light shone innumerable Sharanas.
-- Allama Prabhu 2
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34. |
We see the moon because of its brightness;
We see a lamp because of the brightness it radiates;
We know a diamond by its brilliance;
We see and experience God with the help of Vibhuti,
That is the brilliance of the universal soul ... 2
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| 35. |
Looking for your light,
I went out;
it was like the sudden dawn
of a million million suns,
a ganglion of lightnings
for my wonder.
O Lord of Caves,
if you are light,
there can be no metaphor.3
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36. |
Feed the poor
tell the truth
make water-places
and build tanks for a town --
You may then go to heaven
after death, but you'll get nowhere
near the truth of our Lord
And the man who knows our Lord
he gets no results 3
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| 37. |
They don't know the day
is the dark's face,
and dark the day's.
A necklace of nine jewels
lies buried, intact, in the face of the night;
in the face of day a tree
with leaves of nine designs
When you feed the necklace
to the tree,
the Breath enjoys it
in the Lord of the Caves. 3
Comments -
The night and day are obviously ignorance and awareness.
It is in the experience of the ignorant that we find the jewel
of wisdom, a necklace of nine lingas. In awareness is knowledge and
discrimination (the tree), carefully nurtured.
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38. |
With your alchemies,
you achieve metals,
but no essence.
With all your manifold yogas,
you achieve
a body, but no spirit.
With your speeches and arguments
you build chains of words
but cannot define spirit.
If you say
you and I are One,
you were me
but I was not you. 3
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| 39. |
A little bee born
in the heart's lotus
flew out and swallowed
the sky.
In the breeze
of his wings, three worlds
turned upside down.
When
the cage of the five-coloured swan
was broken, the bee fell
to the ground with broken wings.
Living among you men,
O Lord of Caves,
I saw the lovely tactic
Of truth's coming on. 3
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40. |
I saw;
heart conceive,
hand grow big with child;
ear drink up the smell
of camphor, nose eat up
the dazzle of pearls;
hungry eyes devour
diamonds.
In a blue sapphire
I saw the three worlds
hiding,
O Lord of Caves.
3
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| 41. |
If mountains shiver in the cold
with what
will they wrap them?
If space goes naked
with what
shall they clothe it?
If the lord's men become worldlings
where will I find the metaphor,
O Lord of Caves.
3
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42. |
With a whole temple
in this body
where's the need
for another ?
No one asked
for two.
O Lord of Caves,
if you are stone
what am I ?
3
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| 43. |
When the toad
swallowed the sky,
look, Rahu
the serpent mounted
and wonder of wonders!
the blind man
caught the snake.
Thus, O Lord,
I learned
without telling the world.
3
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44. |
A wilderness grew
in the sky.
In the wilderness
a hunter,
In the hunter's hands
a deer.
The hunter will not die
till the beast
is killed.
Awareness is not easy,
is it ?
O Lord of Caves ?
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