Maa Bharath!
To alleviate money-making disease
You exiled me to a foreign desert.
Could You reduce flames by petrol?
The disease goes beyond any control!
Maa Bharath!
Take me back to Your pious lap comfort
Which alone can heal even birth-ailment
Where wind sings songs of divine names
To elevate the soul from temporal frames.
Maa Bharath!
How I was happy to hear splendid Ramayana
And the world’s longest legend Mahabharata
From Your perpetual lips sweet and skilled
Mixed with judicious ethics vital and valued!
Maa Bharath!
Which land had ever seen an Avatar like Krishna
Fusion of all fine personalities world witnessed
Sweet child, witty friend, winner of hearts, warrior,
Orator, Karma Yogi, Lord still rules many followers?
Maa Bharath!
Buddha carried message of Love churned out of Veda.
Ramanuja opened to downtrodden the path of Dvaita.
Sankara brought out the hidden precious treasure Advaita.
Countless gems of spirituality took birth from Your lap!
Maa Bharath!
In my teens, I was stirred by Vivekananda a holy lion
All my time I must read Ramakrishna’s Gospel line by line
My life’s ambition to achieve even a tiny fraction of Love
That of Amrita Devi embodiment of Your mission and motto.
Maa Bharath!
You being the heart of earth emitting waves of wisdom
Sending Your children of genius like Gandhi to inform
The value of non-violence and renunciation to the world.
Shelter foreigners who come in search of spiritual gold.
Maa Bharath!
Forgive me who forgot You in search of asset.
Let me lie as a tiny dust at Your saintly feet.
Take me again to Tamilnadu a part of Your land
A nation of temples, devotion and devotees band! 080208
Raman Savithiri
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