Door two · The questions
विषय
Recurring concerns that braid through seven centuries of Bhakti — entered not as topics to master, but as questions to live alongside.
i
The single word the tradition argues over for seven centuries.
Kabir · Mirabai · Tukaram · Andal · Ravidas · 11 more
19verses
ii
Bhakti as a quiet refusal of inherited hierarchy — and the limits of that refusal.
Ravidas · Basavanna · Guru Nanak · Narsinh Mehta · Kanakadasa · 1 more
6verses
iii
What it meant — politically, theologically, formally — to write in the spoken tongue.
Kabir · Tukaram · Ravidas · Basavanna · Namdev · 9 more
7verses
iv
The body as instrument, obstacle, scripture, and lover, by turns.
Kabir · Mirabai · Andal · Akka Mahadevi · Lalleshwari (Lal Ded)
3verses
v
How verses survived without manuscripts, and what survived with them.
Andal · Surdas · Namdev · Chaitanya Mahaprabhu · Bhadrachala Ramadasu · 1 more
1verse
vi
The small honesties translation cannot keep, and the larger ones it sometimes can.
Tukaram
—in gathering
vii
Devotion as architecture rather than escape — a way of saying no that is also a way of staying.
Kabir · Mirabai · Basavanna · Akka Mahadevi · Guru Nanak · 5 more
10verses
7 of 7 themes · the questions remain open