Nee Mayayolago Poem by Kanaka Dasa

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Kanaka Dasa

Kanaka Dasa

Kaginele, Haveri, Karnataka / India

Nee Mayayolago



Are you a creature of illusion? or illusion your creation?
Are you a part of the body? Or is the body a part of you?

Is space within the house? Or the house within space?
Or are both space and the house within the seeing eye?
Is the eye within the mind? Or the mind within the eye?
Or are both the eye and the mind within you?

Does sweetness lie in sugar, or sugar in sweetness?
Or do both sweetness and sugar lie in the tongue?

Is the tongue within the mind? Or the mind within the tongue?
Or are both the tongue and the mind within you?

Does fragrance lie in the flower? Or the flower in fragrance?
Or do both the flower and fragrance lie in the nostrils?
I cannot say, O Lord Adikeshava of Kaginele,
O! peerless one, are all things within you alone?

[Translated by K. Narasimha Murthy]

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Kanaka Dasa

Kanaka Dasa

Kaginele, Haveri, Karnataka / India
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