Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Bharathiar in Translation


TRUE OR FALSE

O, the Standing,  the Walking and the Flying -
Are you all dreams? Various visual feigning?
O, the Learning, the Listening,and the Thinking -
Are you all illusions with no profound meaning?

O Early Sun, Woods and Grooves
Are you a mere mirage, an optical blunder?
As those that are past, like a dream buried and lost?

Am I also another dream?
The world too ' just seems'?
Is the concept of Time unreal, like those
of appearances and scenes?
Are their attributes unreal too?
If all the seeds of a grove from the seeds got,
Can the grove be false? Will the word be considered not?

If all that appear were to disappear,
Then that which disappeared must appear!
In a wasteful falsehood, will the destiny be continued?
That which is seen is for sure, and the unseen unsure.
What is seen is Sakthi and that scene is eternity.



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