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Today’s Poem: Brahma

Today’s Poem: Brahma

“They know not well the subtle ways / I keep, and pass, and turn again.”

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Painting from a Kalpa-sutra: Indra Praises the Embryo of Mahavira in the Womb of the Brahman Woman Devananda, c. 1450 (Cleveland Museum of Art)

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