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?
– Mahadevi
– Translated A.K.Ramanujan
– From: The Shambhala anthology of Women’s spiritual poetry