What are temples

What are temples, tell me!

And what are sacred tanks?

O you poor slaves who worship
in temples and tanks!

Temples are in the mind.

Tanks are in the mind.

There is no Becoming,

There is not Unbecoming,
None, none whatever!

Sivavakkiyar

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From: The Poets of the Powers, Edited Kamil Zvelebil

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