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!

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From: The Poets of the Powers, Edited Kamil Zvelebil
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Sivavakkiyar

South India
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