About superstitions... Jedara Daasimayya

Religions set apart certain times and places as specially sacred: rituals and worship are performed at appointed times, pilgrimages are undertaken to well-known holy places. There is a holy map as well as a holy calendar. If you die in Benares, sinner though you are, you will go straight to heaven. The following vachana represents the contempt of the saint for all sacred space and sacred time:

To the utterly at-one with Siva
there's no dawn,
no new moon,
no noonday,
nor equinoxes,
nor sunsets,
nor full moons;

his front yard
is the true Benares,

O Raamanaatha.

Source: 'Speaking of Siva' - Translations by A. K. Ramanujan

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