Spgm 058 - Forget Not Kindness Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

Madalan to Kovalan:

"A learned pundit with his hunchback
He was walking with his hand stick,
A mad elephant came on his track,
As his walking was slow and slack."

"You rushed to the spot,
And saved the pundit,
Also controlled the elephant,
With your inbuilt talent."

"Sympathy for others you've,
And by nature you're brave.
This is what I observe.
All the praise you deserve."

IMMOVABLE WEALTH

"A Brahmin killed in haste
‘Cause of his wife's foolish act
Their child-like mongoose
That grew in their house."

"Annoyed with his spouse,
He then left his house,
And settled in the forest
To repent for this cruel act."

"For this sin, you gave in charity
Gifts to pundits in plenty
And brought him to start his life
Once again with his wife."

"Wealth you gave them.
Happy you made them.
Such a noble heart,
You've on your part."

A SAVIOR OF THE POOR

"Once a liar told a husband
That his wife was morally unsound.
A ghost caught the liar to eat
As all liars, by habit, it ate."

"When for his life you pleaded,
The hungry ghost never heeded,
Though your life you offered,
In return for his life instead."

"To the affected family,
You helped them liberally.
You show pity to any sufferer.
So, a savior of the poor you're."

THE RESULT OF PAST ACTION

Madalan, in distress, spoke:

"Oh you wise, Kovalan,
To me you're always known
By the good actions of your own,
But why you've to suffer then? "

"It's your past life's action,
That plays its own reaction,
When you're here in this life,
With the gem of your wife."

THE DREAM EFFECT

Kovalan replied:

"In the city, by a low class man,
This well-hair-dressed woman
Shaking more out of her fear
She was driven to suffer."

"My robes by others taken aside,
O'er a buffalo I had my slow ride.
Then I reached that last stage,
Throwing away my life bondage."

"Madhavi gave her daughter
Under the Bodhi Sage's care.
A horrible midnight dream I had
So, from Pugar here I hurried."