Songs of Saint Tayumanavar

Songs of Tayumanavar

Desire that is so Known (31/40)

Are we to say the pot is of mud
Only when it is broken?
Are we to say the body is an illusion
Only when death overtakes it?
Oh! Thou, of goodly Grace
Who swallowed Poison as ambrosia!
And exhibiting Thy dance in the Void Vast,
Moveth the lives of worlds all!