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 Truth

Dr. V. V. R. Prasada Rao

This single sunbeam of unique whiteness
Was all purity and integration
Till it touched and befriended
That wicked glass-piece
Refracting the multi-coloured lie.

It is as easy to miss the ring and the wristlet
As to miss the gold.

Between the pond and the Pacific
Truth lies interred in her watery grave.

Delving deep into the depression of divergence
Kicking for breath and clutching at the drowning straws,
I thought I was lost in the boundless abyss
Of billowy ignorance.
But something pushed me up, and I began to see light.
Was it because of the pearl that I held in my grip
In that terrible test of endurance?

There are two lips but one voice.
There are two ears, but hearing is one.
There are two eyes, but sight is one.
What is the Truth? The BI, the DI or the UNI?
The Pearl truly, is one and not many.

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