TO MANI GODS - AGLI DEI MANI

FUZZY HAIRED ELIA LELIA
NOT MAN NOT WOMAN NOT ANDROGYN

NOT MAIDEN NOT GIRL NOT OLD
NOT CHASTE NOT PROSTITUTE NOT PRIM
BUT ALL OF THIS DEAD
NOT STARVED NOT SPEARED NOT POISONED
BUT ALL OF THIS
LIES
NOT IN HEAVEN NOT ON EARTH NOT IN WATER
BUT EVERYWHERE
LUCIO AGATONE PRISCO
NOT HUSBAND NOT LOVER NOT RELATIVE
NOT SADDENING NOT CLEARING
NOT CRYING POSITIONED THIS
THAT IS NOT HEADSTONE NOT PYRAMID NOT SEPULCHRE

BUT ALL OF THESE

KNOWING AND NOT KNOWING

TO WHO HE WAS DEDICATING

ELIA LELIA DAI CAPELLI CRESPI

NE' UOMO NE' DONNA N' ANDROGINA

NE' FANCIULLA NE' GIOVANE NE' VECCHIA

NE' CASTA NE' MERETRICE NE' PUDICA

MA TUTTO QUESTO

MORTA

NON DI FAME NON PER FERRO NON DI VELENO

MA DI TUTTO QUESTO

GIACE NON IN CIELO NON IN ACQUA NON IN TERRA

MA OVUNQUE

LUCIO AGATONE PRISCO

NE' MARITO NE' AMANTE NE' PARENTE

NE' DOLENDOSI NE RALLEGRANDOSI

NE' PIANGENDO POSE QUESTA

CHE NON E' LAPIDE NE' PIRAMIDE NE' SEPOLCRO

MA TUTTE QUESTE COSE

SAPENDO E NON SAPENDO A CHI LA DEDICAVA

Lapide in marmo veronese, Museo Archeologico di Bologna. Manufatto del XVI sec. copia fedele di una lapide più antica, oggi perduta.

Pubblicata su Archivio dell'unicorno, Primavera 1976

On MRTYU or Death according to Sant kabir Sahib

Dear friends,
we are going to switch to English in order to allow foreign readers to access the contents of this blog.
We are sure that you will forgive mistakes due to the limited knowledge of a language that is not native for us.

Today we will post 4 couplets from Sant Kabir Sahib regarding Mrityu or Death:

The weaver weaving thread by thread,
Bring the end near
So death leads us step by step
Run if you can run far

We are creatures with a limited life-time and every second that we spend living our life, we let our death approach a little more. Of course we can'not run far enough to escape death so why should we be anguished by thinking of it?

Evening shadows darken deep
The tiger prowls for the cow
He cannot kill the cow at all
Hungry he cannot go

The cow (atma) can'not be killed beacause it is eternal and does not die.
Death, for wich the tiger is the symbol, can not proceed without having its meal.
So the individual ego and the phisical body will be its prey.
If the individual remains attached to the body and mundane life it will have to suffer from death otherwise there will be not suffer or pain in death.

Says Kabir,
never be proud
Death has thee in his chutch
Sure some day he will smother thee
At home or not as much

If we were always conscious of the approaching death we would drop all our arrogance.
Only a person that think at himself as immortal can behave in such stupid way.

At the falling dry old leaf
the tender leaf does sneer
says the falling leaf:
Today my turn, tomorrow yours Have patience, O my dear!



MRITYU is the word for death and the word AMRIT is the word for immortal, without death.


We bow at the feet of the fountain
Where the Amrit comes
Where death stops his steps
And sweet flavours never fades

From the "tyny red gem", page 37