Wild Women Quotes

“Nothing is concealed from your gaze.
My heartbeat is merely your flute song.
Fuse your flame with me, dispel this dark,
I'm done with these lifetimes of fooling around.”
― Arundhathi Subramaniam, Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry

“Time and space are ingredients she plays with in her cosmic kitchen-chopping, slicing and sauteeing- in a favour of creativity. She does not stand for some dismal creed of transience. She stands for the ecstasy of shape-shifting. Nothing is terminated in her fantastic workshop. It is merely transmuted. He repulsive faces is the last myth of separateness. When that last terror falls away, we are hers once more-restored to her body as one of her many limbs, reinstated to her tree of life as one of its many singing branches.”
― Arundhathi Subramaniam, Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry

“As long as we are seduced by polarities, existence is happy to oblige us with our own smorgasbord of horrors. This is the reminder that the Goddess' dark face represents. But implicit in these horrors is an invitation. An invitation to venture into those closets in our psyche, ruled by guilt and fear and ancestral conditioning, and allow the sunlight to enter. She summons us to the alchemical process that she is-capable of transforming matter into moksha through the sheer furnace of her gaze. This is her ultimate promise”
― Arundhathi Subramaniam, Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry

“For the deepest acts of creation and renewal happen in invisible realms that require a subtle mix of intensity and non-doing, alertness and grace. Fallow fields are far from lifeless, for much churning happens deep within the soil. Here was an insight about the alchemy of waiting and the power of living stillness. Conscious 'being', I began to understand, could be far more significant than 'becoming'.”
― Arundhathi Subramaniam, Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry

“In the hands of a good dancer, love was not just about simpering femininity. It always seemed to suggest something more. There was the hint of a human condition too unnamable to be told except through the language of archetype.”
― Arundhathi Subramaniam, Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry

“I've no relatives here and everyone is my relative

- Nammalvar”
― Arundhathi Subramaniam, Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry

“Gouranga is compassion incarnate,
O Sri Gourachandra, torrent of rasa,
for what fault am I denied?
You were Nanda's child indeed,
you played the flute, mellow tune on lips,
you appeared radiant at Nadiya,
to redeem sentient beings.

Only I was denied, why?

Your name, which redeems the wretched,
is hummed around your lotus feet
by nectar-craving, honey bee-like devotees

I, a naive sinner, a parched, pining skylark
take refuge at your feet, O Gouranga.
- Shija Laiobi”
― Arundhati Subramaniam”
― Arundhathi Subramaniam, Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry