When the sea asked Rama
O you, the maker of equilibrium
should I bury myself inside the earth.
Should I disturb the five basic elements,
for you as you are an avatar,
and your wife Sita has been kidnapped
by the king of demons.
I have seen many men insane in love
but an avatar insane in love is a wonder.
Let me know what your orders are?
Kidnap of Sita is painful for me, too.
But disturbing the equilibrium means a dooms day
when neither there will Sita's beauty
nor the Rama's heart.
More painful will be this in-equilibrium.
The avatar became speechless!
An squirrel dived into the sea
came back on the shores
with some sand on its body
it dived back into the sea,
an effort to make a bridge on the sea,
or just a lesson to an avatar insane in love?
The avatar who had come to enlighten the dark paths
became a pupil of the squirrel,
and acknowledged it
with his three fingers moving on its back
making three lines on it
or writing three golden principles for human life,
a firm faith that one is right,
steady efforts to obtain the goal,
and the hope that one will succeed.
जब सागर ने राम से पुछा भगवन,
पंजतत्व से ही है सम्पूर्ण संतुलन,
अधूरा रह जाये गा आप का सन्देश
बोलिये कया है आप का आदेश?
कया समां जाऊं धरती के अंदर
कुछ भी ना बचे गा फिर बाहर
अति दुखदायक है सीता हरण,
अधिक दुखदयाक हो गा यह असंतुलन
न सीता का सौंदर्य न राम का मन
प्रलय समाप्त कर देगा यह दर्पण
तब एक गिलहरी आई और सागर में कूद पड़ी
फिर ताप्ती रेत पर लोटी फिर सागर में लौटी
मार्ग दर्शक अवतार को दिखला दिया दर्पण
इस धरती पर अवतार को भी करना पडता है जतन,
नहीं तो आकाश पे लौट जाये विष्णु भगवन
राम ने गिलहरी के शरीर पर बना दीं तीन रेखाएं
इसे पढ़ें इस पर विचार करें सीखें और सिखलाएँ
यह तीन रेखाएं देती हैं तीन स्वर्ण सन्देश
यही है एक गिलहरी का एक अवतार को आदेश
सचाई पे हो तो विश्वास रखो प्रयत्न करो और निराश न हो
यह धरती तो परम सत्य है हो सकता है आकाश न हो
Thank you Akhtar Saab to see this here. It is as if a wish came true! I had suggested this to you and before I know I see this poem here. How wonderful. As I have already said, I'm amazed at your ability to do such quick job of responding in a poem form and that too so brilliantly.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
The avatar became speechless! An squirrel dived into the sea came back on the shores with some sand on its body it dived back into the sea, an effort to make a bridge on the sea, Avatar insane in l ove.. how the Squirrels earned their Stripes.. wonderful poem. tony