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 Fallen Yogi (Poem)
Viswanatha Satyanarayana (Translated from Telugu by Dr Sankara Sreerama Rao)
THE FALLEN YOGI
Kavisamraat
VISWANATHA SATYANARAYANA
From the heights of divine ecstasy
Which is beyond words
I jumped into the world of words
Tempted by the delicacy of the soft word
And–here I am–a poet!
From the heights of divine ecstasy
Ruled by the Lord of inaction
I jumped into the world of words
With an insatiable thirst for beauty
And–here I am–a poet!
From the heights of divine ecstasy
Where I ought to think of God alone
I equated Him with the spoken word
And fell into the world of words
Taking the form of a poet!
From the heights of divine ecstasy
Which is far beyond the mundane world
I fell down and became a poet
As I went on thinking about this world.
–Translated from Telugu by
Dr SANKARA SREERAMA RAO