Summer dance

All beings have  non-physical beginnings.

Then manifest into organic form

And become non-physical again at their end.

What then is there, . . . to despair?

- Ch.2, verse 28.

nine spring nights

maasanaam margasirso aham
ritunam kusuma karah

Of moons I am Orion
Of seasons, the blooming spring.

- Chapter X,   Verse 35

Til twelve

Vishnu performed much austerity and penance.

Black sesame grains emanated from his body.

It was the twelfth day of the bright fortnight in the month of Magha.

On Tila Padma Dwadasi, offerings at Vishnu temples include snacks seasoned with sesame and lamps lit with sesame oil.