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....
BY N. BALAMANI AMMA
(Translated by the Author from the original in Malayalam)
I
Through the long long dusky way,
In a victorious march,
I reached the Kingdom of Earth
And was garlanded with this string of blossoms;
A fount of colours that shine and die;
A ripple of primeval joy that brings purity in its wake.
II
Entrapped was my soul in the tight embrace
Of this softness embodied.
My star-crowned head bowed to inhale
Its fragrance sweet;
My heart, drunk with the light of Infinity,
Stooped to suck its honey-drops;
My hands, laden with the treasures of the Universe,
Bent to pluck the petals of its roses.
III
They fade, these blossoms that open
The jewelled portals of beauty,
They drop one by one, before my fond gaze.
Transitory this garland: let it be.
Am I not the prospective conqueror of this world!
Am I, not destined to wear the laurels,
Won from myriad spheres of splendour?
At the journey’s end,
As I regain the abode of peace,
There shall lie dormant in me,
The perfume of garlands innumerable.