Funeral farewell

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Om namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya:

 

Friends, thought you'd relish the following poem from Tukaram, the great

poet-saint of medieval western India.

 

"The body has become like a corpse, and has noticed its place in the cemetery,

 

The dungcakes of indifference to worldly life have been placed around the body,

and the great fire has been kindled to attain the Brahma life,

 

The jar is upturned and broken at one's feet, and the great sentence ('I am Brahman') is heard,

 

I have said the funeral farewell to my family, name and form, and

I have offered my body to whom it belongs,

 

Says Tuka, 'I am naturally saved. The light is lighted, O Pandurang!"

 

-- Life of Tukaram, Justin E. Abbot.

 

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