December, 2018 - MargazhiSangeetham

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

OBLIGATIONS

We know not when we leave, when life returns

So with this body, let us do good turns.

The soul often changes the body according to karma when and how we do not know .

Life is a mystery which comes and leaves the body and where it goes we cannot see.

Life is sure, only as long as it lives in this body

A bomb, a quake, a flood, a war can root out cities in no time.

The phase of the world changes daily.

Our body is doomed to fall one day life the petals of a flower.

So while yet it ensures, let us hasten to perfect ourselves and help our fellow-beings as best as we can.

YOU

YOU CAN BE BEAUTIFUL;

BUT ARE YOU DUTIFUL?

YOU CAN HAVE PLENTIFUL;

BUT ARE YOU MERCIFUL?

YOU CAN BE A SCHOLAR

AND AN ABLE SOLDIER:

BUT ARE YOU A HELPER…

TO THE NEEDY BROTHER?

You command growing wealth;

But have you blooming health?

You attain name and fame;

But are your passions tame

You have the worldly tact,

but what are you in fact?

Have you clear conscience

Do you think in silence?

Have you learnt inner science?

Ingathered crystal mind

Helps you, yourself to find.

-KAVIYOGI SUDDHANANDA BHARATHI