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15 Jun '11
A Poem From South India By The Female Bhakta, Mahadevi, BLOG JUNE 2011
Posted in Blog by Eric Shaw
One Short Bhakti PoemI have been reading, The Hindus, An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger. In the chapter on Bhakti, she translates this poem:
People
Male and Female,
blush when
a cloth covering their shame comes loose.
When all the world is the eye of the lord,
onlooking everywhere, what can you
cover and conceal?
by the female poet named Mahadevi,
12th Century
Tags: Bhakti, Yoga History, Yoga Philosophy, Wendy Doniger
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