Not one, not two, not three or four,
but through eighty-four hundred thousand's vaginas*
have I come,
but through eighty-four hundred thousand's vaginas*
have I come,
I have come
through unlikely worlds,
guzzled on
pleasure and on pain.
Whatever be
all previous lives,
show me mercy
this one day,
all previous lives,
show me mercy
this one day,
0 lord
white as jasmine.
white as jasmine.
* The belief that the soul will go through eighty four hundred thousand rebirths in many forms of living beings before being born again as a human.
-- Akka Mahādēvi [Translated by A. K. Ramanujan in the book - Speaking of Siva]
