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 Contrast

H. N. Hari

The seducted people of these ages
Are in the sensual pleasure cages;
Drowned in misery are these people,
If their minds turn spiritual,
Forthey remember unmanly things
They did, to keep this body and mind,
In perfect state, which none can achieve
For, this is the nature of human life.

Show thou a man who says he is happy
For ever, having friends, loves and money.

But a man with spiritual strength
Is to the brim of life satisfied;
He knows the vanity of human life,
And that man reaches his stature
only, when he contemplates the divine
Which has come to us from the line,
Of great sages of past Hindusthan.

One can see the ever-happy sages,
Who abound in the slopes of Himalayas.

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