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 Creator

Mahakavi Subramanya Bharati (Translated from Tamil by R. Sundaresan)

MAHAKAVI SUBRAMANYA BHARATI

O Life, who knows your greatness?
You are the God that we see.
All laws are made by you,
All laws are undone by you,
You are the wind,
You are Fire,
You are Land,
You are Water,
You are the Sky;
You are the Creator of all lives;
Your job is to change all things that change;
the insects that fly, the tiger that kills,
the worm that crawls, the countless lives on this earth,
the many species of countless lives in the countless worlds,
all these explain your power;
we have respect for creatures that live on earth;
in water and in air;
in one square-foot of air there're lakhs of germs unseen;
there’s a big creature,
inside it are small creatures,
in these creatures are creatures far smaller than they
and it goes on like this;
everywhere life exists,
a big creature, a bigger one, a still bigger one;
an atom, a smaller atom, a still smaller atom;
there’s no end on both the extremes;
O poets, let us worship all lives;
“Namaste Vayo, Tvameva Pratyaksham Brahmasi.”

–Translated from Tamil by R. SUNDARESAN

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