Your Blissful Soul - * PRICELESS PEARLS * by chilukuri venkat

          ~*~ Priceless Pearls-

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          When dark passion wove

          A web of ignorance about

          Me then a woman seemed

          To fill the world’s expanse

          But now that I am favored

          With keener discernment

          My tranquil sight sees one

          Consciousness through out

          The universe…

          * * *

          Don’t scorn the men who

          Have won supreme truth!

          Worldly joys, sexual pleasures

          Worthless as straw to them

          Wealth, it offers no temptation

          Elephants with streaks of rut

          Straining their temples are not

          Restrained by the filaments

          Of lotus stalks…

          * * *

          The sun brings pools of lotuses

          To bloom, the moon illuminates

          Nocturnal lilies, a cloud rains

          Its water and a noble man

          Struggles for other men’s good.

          * * *

          Kindness is an ornament

          For power, restrained speech

          For valor, dispassion for wisdom,

          Discipline for tranquility,

          Munificence for wealth,

          Forbearance for austerity,

          Candor for duty, but

          Moral conduct the cause of all

          Is a gem that crowns the rest.

          * * *

          Dt.24.05.2004

          (Source: Bhartrihari, a Sanskrit poet)

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          -venkat

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