Religion
Song LX: The savour of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of…
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, with Evelyn Underhill (1915) · From Songs of Kabir (1915)
Religion
The savour of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking:
As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
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MLA
Kabir. “Song LX: The savour of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of….” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, with Evelyn Underhill. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kabir/59/.
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Kabir. “Song LX: The savour of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of….” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, with Evelyn Underhill. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kabir/59/.
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