Mmgl Part 023-002 - Wherefrom You Cried? Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

"Your son in his last life,
He had me as his wife.
He died of snakebite.
Due to his ill fate."

"Not to live thereafter,
I burnt my life in fire.
Where were you then
To mourn for your son? "

"As a queen you're so good,
But what you did, it's no good."
Thus Manimegalai tried to open
The eyes of the depressed queen.

TO LIFE OR TO BODY?

"For your son's body you cried?
Or for his life you cried?
Who burnt it in graveyard,
If it's for the body you cried? "

"If it's for the life you cried
Where his life now entered?
If his life you really love
Then all the lives, you must love."

THE DEED HAS WON

"Listen to this, Oh queen,
In his last life your son,
He killed a cook as the pot
From his hand slipped out."

"For this evil deed he did
By snakebite he was last killed
And now by Kanchanan he's killed,
So is the result of a bad deed"

TELLING HER STORY

‘How I know these things?
Now you may be asking.
The stone deity foretold
What all things I've told."

EXPLAINED HER SKILL

"Your drug didn't make me mad.
Your man couldn't do anything bad.
You kept me in dark cell with no food
But that plan also miserably failed."

"As I have the power to fly up,
Or can take any kind of shape,
I could have easily escaped.
But I stayed for your son, my husband."

"I'm here to console you,
And also to correct you.
Your ignorance I wish to clear.
What I'm going to tell, you hear."

THE LUST'S ILL EFFECT

"Due to a king's tyranny
A kingdom was shaky.
A decent woman lived
There with her only kid."

"Her husband left her.
This she couldn't bear.
Later she left her son.
And went to another town."

"He was under a Brahmin's care,
Not known to anyone there.
This boy grew up to share
His bed with his mother."

"Her mother it was, he knew not first,
But later when he came to know the fact,
He felt ashamed of his immoral action,
And gave up his life in retribution."

THE NATURE OF MURDER

"Once a hunter sent an arrow,
That killed a deer in sorrow.
Its stomach the arrow pierced.
While it carried its unborn kid"

"The hunter went near it.
He felt sorry for it.
He also died on the spot
As it touched his heart."

THE INTOXICATING WINE

"When a drunkard went
Before a wild elephant,
He was crushed to death.
Thus he invited his death."

FALSE MANNERS

"People with false manners,
Are they not bad planners?
Do they prosper well?
Never with manners ill."

THE EVILS OF THEFT

A thief can never prosper
As always he lives in fear.
I need not tell you these things.
It's for those ignorant of things."

CAME OUT OF THE SORROW

"All learned cannot realize
The ultimate true conscience.
Only one with a clean heart,
He's deemed to have learnt."

"Only one who gives charity
That one lives in the world of plenty.
One who removes hunger that one
Knows the path to the Heaven."

"One who loves others, that one
In fact, is a realized person."
Such soothing advice she said
And the queen carefully heard.

MUTUALLY PRAISED

The queen heard Manimegalai's advice
And she got her mental peace.
When she started her worship
Manimegalai told her to stop.

Manimegalai told, "You're mother
Of my husband and it'll be unfair
If you worship your daughter.
Let me worship my mother."

This way they mutually praised
An ascetic, how a queen respected
A queen, how an ascetic respected,
From their actions they revealed.