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Ravidas – from the Adi Granth 12
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Ravidas – from the Adi Granth 12
[extracted from Songs of the Saints of India – translated by Professor John Stratton Hawley and Professor Mark Juergensmeyer]
It’s just a clay puppet, but how it can dance!
It looks here, looks there, listens and talks,
races off this way and that;
It comes on something and it swells with pride,
but if fortune fades it starts to cry.
It gets tangled in its lusts, in tastes
of mind, word, and deed,
and then it meets its end and takes some other form.
Brother says Ravidas, the world’s a game, a magic show,
and I’m in love with the gamester,
the magician who makes it go.