100 verses on renunciation

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This is our last day of "100 Verses on Renunciation" by Bhartrihari,

his impassioned goodbye. His universal supplication is very

reminiscent of Native American attitude toward God.

 

Verse #100

 

O Earth, my mother! O wind, my father! O fire, my friend! O Water, my

good relative! O Sky, my brother! here is my last salutation to you

with clasped hands. Having cast away infatuation with its wonderful

power by means of an amplitude of pure knowledge, resplendent with

merits developed through my association with you all, I now merge in

the Supreme Brahman.

 

Swami Madhavananda comments: "The terms of familiarity and endearment

used of the five elements are appropriate in view of the final point

of blissful parting to which the Yogi has been carried through those

subtle tattvas or essences of the five elements which characterize

intermediate stages of Yogic practice."

 

Edith..