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....
SAI SHRIMANARAYANA
[The following poem was written by Sai Srimannarayana who breathed his last when he was hardly sixteen years old, leaving behind him a previous store of splendid poems like Chatherton, Toru Dutt and Padmavathy, young inheritors of unfulfilled renown. His sweetest verses are characterised by the saddest thought and profound wisdom. Perhaps, he was a reincarnated sage who visited this planet for a short while with an agonised soul seeking liberation.
As Mahabharata says, it is better to blaze forth for a movement than to smoulder eternally! - Editor]
All is apparently tranquil
But the soul aches
Logic abandoned
Blind, uncontrollable sadness
Grief floods the mind
But the tears don’t come
The struggle of the soul
In stifling agony
Amidst surface tranquility
Deep down the soul aches
Like a bird in a cage
In ignorant rage.
“What greater delight is there than to behold the earth appareled with plants as with a robe of embroidered work, set with Orient Pearls and garnished with great diversity of rare and costly jewels.”
–JOHN GERARD.