Quote Mediations on Shiva: The Shivastotravali of Utpaladeva

Meditations on Shiva: The Shivastotravali of Utpaladeva

Translated from the Sanskrit by Constantina Rhodes Bailly

SUNY Press, Albany, New York, 1995. 140 pages.

Stora Eleven

Bound to the World by Desire

Neither this world

Nor a friend

Nor a Relative

Belongs to me at all.

When you are all this

Who else then could be mine?

You, O Master, are the Great Lord.

You are in truth the entire world.

Thus, asking for any one specific thing

Is just the asking

And nothing more.

  -- page 69

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