PERCEIVE THE ONE

Should you not make a bid

to be rid of the multi-misery

flowing to you from

your own conditioning,

where you are acquiescing in

a thousand castes and creeds,

where you are paying court

to schemers who are,

fox-like in character,

and where you are swearing by

cults and schisms that are

egging us on to fight

like dogs amongst ourselves?

Real living is that

where your mind is in equipoise

with the distinction between “You” and “I”

obliterated for good

and there is unobstructed

vision of the One only…

[Tamil poem by BHARATIDASAN (1891 - 1964) rendered into English by Sage TGN]