People,
male and female,
blush when a cloth covering their shame
comes loose.
When the lord of lives
lives drowned without a face
in the world, how can you be modest?
When all the world is the eye of the lord,
onlooking everywhere, what can you
cover and conceal?
-- Akka Mahādēvi [Translated by A. K. Ramanujan in the book - Speaking of Siva]
Look here, dear fellow:
I wear these men's clothes
only for you.
Sometimes I am man.
sometimes I am woman.
O' lord of the meeting rivers
I'll make war for you
but I'll be your devotees' bride.
-- Basavanna [Translated by A. K. Ramanujan in the book - Speaking of Siva]
