Endless is My Wealth

Endless is My Wealth


The sage
king Janaka
stands on a hill
watching his city in flames

“Endless is my wealth,”
he says, “I have nothing at all,
and thus when this city of Mithila crumbles,
red embers, white ashes
all monuments of men destroyed,
nothing of mine is burned.”

“I have nothing at all,
and endless is my wealth.” 

Shankara (8th century CE)
Indian Monk and Scholar
English version by W. S. Merwin & J. Moussaieff Mason

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