Monologue With Lord Sankara! -Ii Poem by Varanasi Ramabrahmam
Monologue With Lord Sankara! -Ii
XI
Learning the languages is useless if we do not know to creatively imagine;
It is futile to drink the concoction of Vedanta if we do not have devotion for you;
People seldom or never think about the spider, the serpent, the elephant and the tribal
That drank devotion for you and were showered with Your compassion, Lord Sankara!
XII
When youthful girls fill our minds,
The feelings and thoughts transform into lyrics and love songs;
If you are filled in our thoughts, devotion for you over flows
And compositions, poetry and devotional works about you gush out Lord Sankara!
XIII
The heart of the poet is a fertile watered field after being
Tilled by the thoughts and sayings of the eminent people;
When Your parental love and compassion acting as sun rays
Help, his imagination-seeds grow into bountiful crop, Lord Sankara!
XIV
Let my literary works be useful for the readers
To enlighten and enlarge their vision and cheer them
And not for merely bringing me some name or fame;
Let the readers of my creation get happiness, joy and peace of mind
And not I merely make some money, Lord Sankara!
XV
Let one not get name and fame without being useful to the people
Let one not merely enjoy power without benefiting and helping the citizens
Let one not be engaged in research and search which are of no use to the society or ordinary folk
Please mold every one to be useful and beneficial to the people and creation, Lord Sankara!
XVI
To silently suffer the corrupt and insensitive governance
Of the rulers elected by us,
And the evil influence of the “civilization” evolved and nurtured by us
Has become our life, living and life-style, Lord Sankara!
XVII
We can not prevent ourselves from smoking, drinking or taking drugs
And thus disallow spoiling our body, mind and health;
We can not stop the water we drink, the air we breathe
And the environment we live in from being contaminated and polluted;
Industries that pollute our climate are our breath
We ourselves are danger and death to us, Lord Sankara!
XVIII
Leaders pampering us and showing heaven on palms,
Again and again pleading us and taking us in cars
For polling to booths, will forget our addresses
Once we elect them, Lord Sankara!
XIX
Treating the readers and spectators as cultured and aesthetic,
Create pleasant works and movies the civilized artistes;
Treating us as animals the third rate “creators”
Make money on our baser instincts, Lord Sankara!
XX
The lives of the people who live with scruples have become laughing stocks,
Inefficient sans “intelligence”, unbearable, painful and vulnerable;
Cheating, deceit, hypocrisy, cruelty, violence have become commendable life-styles
Has it become like this now or it is like this right from the beginning, Lord Sankara!
In life there is always two streams- the atheist and the non-atheist. We need not worry over this aspect. Sankaras will come and go but the world will continue to be like this. We need not have regrets. We must learn to grasp higher ideals for a peaceful living - this is what we need. We should know how to lead an honest life in this dishonest world. We certainly can do it and we will be actually listened. The first lines of the poem - let us not put the idea as useless and futile etc. Know for certain that everybody is in search of truth in his own manner. The way can be different. That is all. I agree with the idea that one must get beyond the limitations of language to know the heart of things but let us not put it as useless. As poets, we can have a soft approach. I agree with the theme of your poem.
In life there is always two streams- the atheist and the non-atheist. We need not worry over this aspect. Sankaras will come and go but the world will continue to be like this. We need not have regrets. We must learn to grasp higher ideals for a peaceful living - this is what we need. We should know how to lead an honest life in this dishonest world. We certainly can do it and we will be actually listened. The first lines of the poem - let us not put the idea as useless and futile etc. Know for certain that everybody is in search of truth in his own manner. The way can be different. That is all. I agree with the idea that one must get beyond the limitations of language to know the heart of things but let us not put it as useless. As poets, we can have a soft approach. I agree with the theme of your poem.
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In life there is always two streams- the atheist and the non-atheist. We need not worry over this aspect. Sankaras will come and go but the world will continue to be like this. We need not have regrets. We must learn to grasp higher ideals for a peaceful living - this is what we need. We should know how to lead an honest life in this dishonest world. We certainly can do it and we will be actually listened. The first lines of the poem - let us not put the idea as useless and futile etc. Know for certain that everybody is in search of truth in his own manner. The way can be different. That is all. I agree with the idea that one must get beyond the limitations of language to know the heart of things but let us not put it as useless. As poets, we can have a soft approach. I agree with the theme of your poem.