What Are Temples Poem by Sivavakkiyar

What Are Temples

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What are temples, tell me!
And what are sacred tanks?
O you poor slaves who worship
in temples and tanks!
Temples are in the mind.
Tanks are in the mind.
There is no Becoming,
There is not Unbecoming,
None, none whatever!

Sivavakkiyar
Friday, May 4, 2012
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