Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
The Fellow-Traveller
Masti Venkatesa Iyengar (Rendered by the Author from his Poem in Kannada)
BY MASTI VENKATESA IYENGAR
(Rendered by the Author from his poem in Kannada)
That You have walked with me without intermission throughout the journey, I have not realised till this moment.
Whether it was because I walked as in a sleep unconscious, or my faculties are dense and could not perceive, or, again, Your step is so gentle that I could not notice, or because Illusion lay between us as a veil obstructing vision, I have not to this moment been aware that You have always walked with me.
"Alas," I thought, "I am companionless upon this desert wild," and, turning my grief over in mind, dissolved in deep distress. "I know not the way," I cried, "and there is no one to show it to me." I knew not that You held me by the hand and were guiding me all the way.
I turn and what do I see? On the sand, with the mark of every step I have made, is the mark of a step of Yours. Over league on league of inhospitable desert, oh Merciful, You have walked with me step by step and I knew it not till this moment.