Tag: Surdas

  • Sunday Prayer

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    In honor of New Delhi’s recently held Bhakti poetry presentation, I am devoting this week’s Sunday Prayer to three legendary poets, Tulsidas, Surdas and Kabir Das: The great Bhakti movement swept through Central and Northern India during the 14-17th centuries.  It was initiated by a loosely associated group of teachers or sants. Ramananda, Ravids, Srimanta Sankardeva,…

  • Sunday Prayer

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    Krishna Awakes Krishna awake, for the day has dawned: large, deep and lotus-like, your eyes are as in the love-shaped lake a pair of swans even a million Kamadevas cannot vie with the bewitching beauty of your face; the sun rises in the east, a crimson ball the night is going and the moonlight pales…